Only the educated are free. ~Epictetus
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. ~William Lowe Bryan
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation). ~Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey
Studyation beat Education. ~Bajan Proverb
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. ~Will Durant
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ~Chinese proverb
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. ~Neil Postman
Seek education from the cradle to the grave. ~Arabic proverb
If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. ~R. Buckminster Fuller
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ~Jim Rohn
If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. ~Clarence Thomas
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ~Peter Brougham
They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. ~Greek proverb
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~G. K. Chesterton
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, ‘As much as the living are to the dead.’ ~Diogenes Laetius
Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. ~Frederick W.Robertson
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand. ~Native American saying
I am still learning. ~Michelangelo
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. ~Alfred Mercier
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. ~T.S. Eliot
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer
Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself. ~Robin Cook
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. ~Joseph Addison
Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Will Durant
Seek education even if it takes you to China. ~Arabic proverb
Education is the best provision for old age. ~Aristotle
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be. ~Thomas Jefferson
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends. ~Benjamin Disraeli
An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. ~George Savile
Education is a gift that none can take away. ~American proverb
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm
Education is what you know, not what’s in the book. ~Egyptian proverb
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. ~R. Baker
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge
A child without education, is like a bird without wings. ~Tibetan proverb
Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education. ~Italian proverb
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes – incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam
Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity. No hand can lay it in the right direction but the hand of a mother. ~Mrs. H. O. Ward
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight train, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. ~Jim Rohn
If you think education is expensive try ignorance. ~African proverb
It is only the ignorant who despise education. ~Publius Syrus
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. ~Erasmus
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ~Plutarch
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ~Paul E. Gray
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. ~Smiley Blanton
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Norman Juster
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~Mark Twain
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. ~English proverb