Quotes inspired by EDUCATION

Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. 

Ropo Oguntimehin
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lord Alexander

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The secret of education is respecting the pupil.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. 
Horace Mann 
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. 
A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.  
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. 
Edward Everett
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.  
Will Durant 
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Education is all a matter of building bridges. 
Ralph Ellison  
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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
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. 
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  
John Dewey

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Education is the transmission of civilization. 
Will Durant
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. 
B. F. Skinner

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. 
Malcolm Forbes
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Every educated person is a future enemy. 
Martin Bormann
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.  
Gail Godwin
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison. 
Victor Hugo

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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.  
Abu Bakr