Education Quotes

The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.

Andre Maurois

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Elbert Hubbard

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Aldous Huxley

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Walter Bagehot

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

John Dewey

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life.

Petronius Arbiter

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing–the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.

Max Forman

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Elbert Hubbard

I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you.

George Bernard Shaw

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly–but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

Prof. Irwin Edman