Education Quotes

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Learning, Another

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

Hope, Learned, Rather

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Sympathy, Kindness, True

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

Change, Learning, True

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, America, Few

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

Age, Society, Children

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato

Life, Future, Direction

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Liberty, Army, Standing

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

Work, Living, Learn

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Mind, Purpose, Open

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

Knowledge, Wisdom, Data

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.
Russell Baker

Best, Person, Learned

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler

Future, Person, Cannot

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

Today, Giving, Young

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Society, Soul, Another

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet

Children, Themselves, Left

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

Science, School, College

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Aeschylus

Learning, Afraid, Storms

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Learning, Serenity

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope

Everything, Understand, Reason

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Wise, Foolish, Lack

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Best, Complete, Gentle

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

Learning, Chance, Diligence

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