Quotes about Education
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
- Frederick Douglass
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
- George H. W. Bush
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
- Will Rogers
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
- Martin Luther
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
- CS Lewis
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
- Aristotle
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
- Henry Ford
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
- Cormac McCarthy
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
- William James
Education is the great engine to personal development.
- Nelson Mandela