Quotes about Education
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.
- Confucius
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
- George Eliot
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
- John Milton
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
- TB Joshua
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
- John Milton
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
- Anonymous