Education Quotes
No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
~ G.K. Chesterton
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
~ Bill Beattie
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
~ Albert Einstein
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
~ Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~ Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
~ G.M. Trevelyan
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
~ A.A. Milne
