Famous Quotes About education

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.