They know enough who know how to learn.
~ Henry Adams

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
~ Robert Anthony

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~ Aristotle

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

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

The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
~ James A. Baldwin

To have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework.
~ Ernest Boyer, in “The Third Wave of School Reform”, Christianity Today , 9/22/89, p. 16

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
~ William Blake

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
~ Allan Bloom

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It’s time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.
~ Samuel Blumenfeld, in NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education [Boise, Idaho: Paradigm, 1984] page xiv

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~ Derek Bok

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
~ Alec Bourne

To have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework.
~ Ernest Boyer, in “The Third Wave of School Reform”, Christianity Today , 9/22/89, p. 16

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 .
~ Ray Bradbury

Man is what he reads.
~ Joseph Brodsky

Change is the end result of all true learning.
~ Leo Buscaglia

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call tragedy.
~ Thomas Carlyle

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
~ George Washington Carver

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
~ Noam Chomsky

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
~ Confucius

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
~ Walter Cronkite

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
~ Anthony J. D’Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
~ Anthony J. D’Angelo

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be “the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted.”
~ R. L. Dabney, in On Secular Education. Moscow, ID: Ransom Press, 1989. page 17.

Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.
~ R. L. Dabney, in On Secular Education. Moscow, ID: Ransom Press, 1989. pages 16-17.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~ John Dewey

There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried.
~ John Dewey

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
~ Ernest Dimnet

On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated. “As much,” said he, “as the living are to the dead.”
~ Diogenes Laertius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~ Will Durant

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
~ Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
~ Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
~ Albert Einstein

Those who trust us educate us.
~ George Eliot

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus, in Discourses

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
~ George Evans

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~ Edward Everett

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
~ E.M. Forster

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~ Robert Frost

Perhaps the number one problem in public education is the attempt to educate students without a moral point of reference. With a floating target of truth and the desertion of absolutes, the entire system has abandoned its base.
~Kenneth Gangel, in Schooling Choices, edited by Wayne House. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1988. page 127.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
~ John Taylor Gatto

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~ Sydney J. Harris

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
~ Napoleon Hill

We have too readily blamed shortcomings in American education on social changes (the disorientation of the American family or the impact of television) or incompetent teachers or structural flaws in our schools systems. But the chief blame should fall on faulty theories promulgated in our schools of education and accepted by educational policymakers.
~ E. D. Hirsch, Jr., in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987.

Schools have, or should have, children for six or seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for thirteen years or more. To assert that they are powerless to make a significant impact on what their students learn would be to make a claim about American education that few parents, teachers, or students would find it easy to accept.
~ E. D. Hirsch, Jr., in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987. page 20

A man’s mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned.
~ Thomas H. Huxley

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
~ B.B. King

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
~ William James

Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.
~ John F. Kennedy

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
~ John F. Kennedy

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount.
~ Martin Luther

A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.
~ J. Gresham Machen, in Education, Christianity, and the State. Jefferson, MD: Trinity Foundation, 1987. page 81

The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.
~ J. Gresham Machen, in Education, Christianity, and the State. Jefferson, MD: Trinity Foundation, 1987. page 8

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
~ Malcolm X

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
~ Malcolm X

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

Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.
~ Charlotte Mason, in A Philosophy of Education

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the office, both private and public, of peace and war.
~ John Milton, in Areopagitica and Of Education. Northbrook, IL: AHM Publishing, 1951. page 60

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.
~Richard Mitchell, in The Graves of Academe

If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.
~Richard Mitchell, in The Graves of Academe

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
~ Wilson Mizner

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
~ Claus Moser

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves.
~ Report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
~ Thomas Paine

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
~ Pauline Phillips

Responsibility educates.
~ Wendell Phillips

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
~ Plato

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste of it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
~ Alexander Pope, in Essay on Criticism

People enter schools as question-marks and they leave as periods.
~ Neil Postman

Education is the most powerful ally of humanism, and every American public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?
~ Charles Potter

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
~ Will Rogers

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
~ Carl Rogers

All of life is constant education.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
~ Bertrand Russell

Most people would rather die than think — in fact they do!
~ Bertrand Russell

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
~ Dorothy Sayers, from “The Lost Tools of Learning” in Douglas Wilson’s book Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1991.

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing–perhaps in particular if we learned nothing–our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.
~ Dorothy Sayers, from “The Lost Tools of Learning” in Douglas Wilson’s book Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1991. page 145.

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
~ Thomas Scott

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
~ Pete Seeger

He is educated who knows how to find out what he does not know.
~ George Simmel

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
~ Thomas Sowell

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
~ Mark Twain

We’re drowning in information, but we’re starved for knowledge.
~ Unknown

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble to dust; but if we work on men’s immortal minds, if we impress on them with high principles, the just fear of God and love for their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
~ Daniel Webster

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

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
~ Brigham Young

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