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Quotes including the word “education”.

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Aristotles

The roots of education are bitter, but it's fruits sre sweet.

Aristotles

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Isaac Asimov

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

Heinrich Bell

The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.

Anton Chekhov

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

Diogenes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Alexandre Dumas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Anatole France

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Paulo Freire

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.

Paulo Freire

Education means freedom.

Robert Frost

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

Horace

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Krishnamurti

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Nelson Mandela

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

Plutarch

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Rousseau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Saadawi

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Anne Sullivan

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Dylan Thomas

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Durant Will

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Wollstonecraft

And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring.

B. W. Yeats

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