Education Quotes

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Bertrand A. Russell

Hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Chinese proverb

I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

Andre Gide

The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful insights."

Bill Vaughan

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 principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

Felix E. Schelling