Famous Quotes About education

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.