Education

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."

Robert Lee Frost

Education

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

Daniel J. Boorstin

Education

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern."

Tony Benn

Authority, Government

Education

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Herbert George Wells

Education

History and Nations

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

Helen Hayes

Education

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"After bread, education is the first need of the people."

Georges Danton

Education

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own."

Nikos Kazantzakis

Education

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

Umberto Eco

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education."

Wilson Mizner "Epigrams"

Education

God and Religion

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

Thomas Jefferson

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

Aristotle

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Helen Keller

Education

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

Wilson Mizner

Education

God and Religion

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

Bill Vaughan

Education

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is the only lesson, other lessons are only to make you learn this one lesson."

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Education

Life and Death

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

Sam Levenson

Defeates and Mistakes

Education

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Everything I know I learned after I was thirty."

Georges Clemenceau

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Study men, not historians."

Harry S. Truman

Education

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."

Douglas Everett

Education

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."

Fats Domino

Education

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."

Ed Macauley

Education

Success and Fame

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."

Thomas Merton

Education

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."

Chinese Proverbs

Education

Memory

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham Speech to the House of Commons

Education

Human

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

John Ciardi

Education

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"He who can find new wisdom in old knowledge will be a good teacher."

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Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"

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Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is the fountain that too few people drink from."

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Education

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

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Education

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 1.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Education

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Books, the children of the brain."

Jonathan Swift "A Tale Of A Tub"

Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Jim Rohn

Education

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Education

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

Mahatma Gandhi

Education

God and Religion

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Education

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

Art and Culture

Education

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Education

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

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Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Celine-Louis-Ferdinand

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ronald E. Osborn

Education

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."

Spanish Proverbs

Education

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

Virginia Satir

Education

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Education

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Jacob Bronowski

Education

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

Education

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

"An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern."

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

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

"After bread, education is the first need of the people."

"Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own."

"Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

"Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education."

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

"Life is the only lesson, other lessons are only to make you learn this one lesson.﻿"

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

"Everything I know I learned after I was thirty."

"Study men, not historians."

"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

"He who can find new wisdom in old knowledge will be a good teacher."

"Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"

"Education is the fountain that too few people drink from."

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

"Books, the children of the brain."

"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."

"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

"The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

"Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."

"Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

"We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

"Life is the only lesson, other lessons are only to make you learn this one lesson."