Education

• The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values. — William Ralph Inge
• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. — Plato
• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain
• Learn as if you will live forever. Live as though you will die tomorrow! — Anonymous
• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. — Louis Nizer
• Man's mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income — which he then spends sending his son to college. — Bill Vaughan
• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin P. Adams
• When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands. — James Burke
• Knowledge itself is power. — Francis Bacon
• Only the educated are free. — Epictetus
• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. — George Bernard Shaw
• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. He who cannot teach, teaches teachers. He who cannot teach teachers, becomes an administrator. — Anonymous
• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner
• Education has for its object the formation of character. — Herbert Spencer
• Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
• The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. — Harry Truman
• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
• Wear your learning as you wear your watch in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have it. — Lord Chesterfield
• A little learning is a dangerous thing. — Alexander Pope
• Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. — Alexander Pope
• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G. Wells
• One good father can do more than 100 schoolmasters. — Persian proverb
• He who opens a school door closes a prison. — Victor Hugo
• If you think education is costly, try ignorance. — Derek Bok
• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. — George Santayana
• Alexander Graham Bell thought you could educate yourself by continually putting three words into practice: "Observe, remember, compare."
• No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest ... for it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. — T.S. Eliot
• Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. — Carl Albert
• Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. — Groucho Marx
• They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Brooks Adams