Famous Education Quotes

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
-- Lewis Carroll

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
-- Alexander Pope

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
-- James Baldwin

A child miseducated is a child lost.
-- John F Kennedy

A college education shows a man how little other people know.
-- Haliburton

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
-- Brander Matthews

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
-- Elbert Green Hubbard

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
-- Henry B Adams

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
-- Sir John Lubbock

All real education is the architecture of the soul.
-- William J Bennett

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
-- Aristotle

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
-- Russell Baker

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
-- Tony Blair

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day-- In sighing and dismay.
-- William Blake

By education most have been misled.
-- John Dryden

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.
-- Hellen Keller

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- R S Ingersoll