Education Quotes

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

~ Aristotle

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

~ Doris Lessing

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

~ Khaled Hosseini

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

~ Plutarch

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

~ Jim Henson

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

~ C.s. Lewis

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

~ Jane Austen

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

~ Nelson Mandela

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

~ Margaret Atwood

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

~ W.b. Yeats

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

~ G.k. Chesterton

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

~ Malcolm X

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

~ Walter Scott

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

~ Socrates

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

~ Noam Chomsky

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

~ Isaac Asimov

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

~ Bill Watterson

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

~ Terry Pratchett

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

~ Muriel Spark

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

~ Ray Bradbury

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

~ Henry Ford

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

~ Phil Collins

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

~ Stanley Kubrick

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

~ Thomas Jefferson

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

~ Victor Hugo

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

~ Thomas More

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

~ Bill Watterson

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

~ Mark Twain

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

~ Adelaide Hoodless

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

~ William Shakespeare

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

~ Noam Chomsky

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

~ Richard Shaull

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

~ Frank Zappa

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

~ Martha Graham