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1. "In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Quotations about: Youth and Age

2. "Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."

Chinese proverb

3. "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."

Laurence J. Peter

4. "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

Clive James

5. "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Alec Bourne

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

6. "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner

Quotations about: Memory

7. "The key to education is the experience of beauty."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

8. "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."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Law and Crime

9. "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

10. "We go to school to learn to communicate, but all the teachers say to us is "shut up!""

Leo Anthony Gallagher

11. "When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

12. "Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily."

Anon.

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

13. "A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."

proverb

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

14. "Freedom can occur only through education."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

15. "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Human

16. "I am a part of everything that I have read."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Art and Culture

17. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

Horace Mann

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

William Butler Yeats

19. "Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn."

Frank A. Clark

Quotations about: Youth and Age

20. "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."

Claus Moser

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

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21. "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Ray Bradbury

22. "No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."

Eric Hoffer

23. "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

Dan Stanford

Quotations about: Various

24. "The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together."

Eric Hoffer

25. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle

26. "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes

27. "To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."

Samuel T. Coleridge, "The Collected Works"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

28. "Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students."

Anon.

Quotations about: Time and Passing

29. "Tell me - I will forget.
Show me - I might remember.
Involve me - I will understand."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Memory

30. "A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one."

Dutch proverb

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

31. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Brooks Adams

32. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Youth and Age

33. "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Youth and Age

34. "Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life."

African proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

35. "All very old men have splendid educations; all men who apparently know nothing else have thorough classical educations; nobody has an average education."

Stephen Leacock

36. "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Authority, Government

37. "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Herbert George Wells, "Outline of History"

Quotations about: History and Nations

38. "Experience without learning is better than learning without experience."

English proverb

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

39. "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

40. "To teach is to learn twice."

Joseph Joubert

41. "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."

Evan Esar

Quotations about: Richness and Money

42. "Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

43. "You have to study a great deal to know a little."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

44. "You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Life and Death

45. "Experience is what you get while looking for something else."

Federico Fellini

46. "Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught."

George Savile

47. "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Mark Twain

48. "The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."

George Bernard Shaw

49. "A man is made by the books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

50. "Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books."

Elbert Green Hubbard

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