Education Quotes And Sayings

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“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
– Mark Twain

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
– Mark Twain

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
– Mark Twain

“Every educated person is a future enemy.”
– Martin Bormann

“The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”
– Marva Collins

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
– Maya Angelou

“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.”
– Maynard James Keenan

“One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”
– Merle Shain

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
– Michel De Montaigne

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.”
– Muriel Spark

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela

“America is the best half-educated country in the world.”
– Nicholas M. Butler

“I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
– Pete Seeger

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.”
– Plato

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
– Plato

“Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to discover the natural bent.”
– Plato

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”
– Plato

“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”
– Plato

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
– Plato

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”
– Ralph Ellison

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.”
– Robert Anthony

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