The repository contains 49 quotes in the category “Education.”
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919
During a commencement speech in 1962 after Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, received an honorary degree from Yale:
I am particularly glad to become a Yale man because as I think about my troubles, I find that a lot of them come from other Yale men.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
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
1854 — 1900
The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
At a press conference where he announced that by enrolling at Notre Dame he was ineligible to sign with the Minnesota Twins:
I never thought I’d be announcing to the world I’m going to class.
Aaron Heilman
1978 —
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
1874 — 1963
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862
Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Josef Stalin
1880 — 1953
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.
Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
1802 — 1885
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
384 — 322 B.C.
There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
1874 — 1936
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. Chesterton
1874 — 1936
Give a hungry person a fish, he eats for a day, teach a hungry person to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
Confucius
551 — 479 B.C.
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Dobie
1888 — 1964
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
1919 — 1990
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
1937 —
Any discipline with the name “--- Studies” is the abode of charlatans.
Gerry Harbison
1958 —
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