MY MAIN BLOG - Quotations on Education

Quote 26

2011-04-26T16:21:00.000-07:00

Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money.
- Max Forman

Quote 27

2011-04-06T16:22:00.000-07:00

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
- Robert M. Hutchins

Quote 23

2011-03-20T16:19:00.000-07:00

[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

Quote 25

2011-03-12T16:21:00.000-08:00

One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
- William Lowe Bryan

Quote 24

2011-03-04T16:20:00.000-08:00

A form of self-delusion.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

Quote 22

2011-02-28T16:19:00.000-08:00

The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.
- Josiah Stamp

Quote 21

2011-02-07T16:18:00.000-08:00

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.

Quote 20

2011-01-14T16:18:00.000-08:00

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.

Quote 19

2010-12-23T16:17:00.000-08:00

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
- Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.

Quote 18

2010-11-09T16:17:00.000-08:00

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Prof. Irwin Edman

Quote 17

2010-10-13T16:17:00.000-07:00

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas

Quote 16

2010-09-20T16:16:00.000-07:00

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

Quote 15

2010-09-06T17:44:00.000-07:00

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle

Quote 14

2010-08-17T02:02:00.000-07:00

Common Sense - the most uncommon thing on the Earth.

Quote 13

2010-08-13T01:47:00.000-07:00

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." - John F. Kennedy

Quote 12

2010-08-10T09:45:00.000-07:00

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet - Aristotle

Quote 11

2010-08-05T07:15:00.000-07:00

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one" - Malcolm Forbes

Quote 10

2010-08-04T08:53:00.000-07:00

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education." - Victor Hugo

Quote 9

2010-07-31T06:28:00.000-07:00

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts" - Henry Brooks Adams

Quote 8

2010-07-29T19:13:00.000-07:00

"Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man." - Swami Vivekanada

Quote 7

2010-07-29T01:08:00.000-07:00

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - Omar N. Bradley, an American general

Quote 6

2010-07-27T01:07:00.000-07:00

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." - Joseph Stalin

Quote 5

2010-07-26T01:07:00.000-07:00

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines." Erich Fromm

Quote 4

2010-07-24T01:06:00.000-07:00

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - G.M. Trevelyan

Quote 3

2010-07-21T01:04:00.000-07:00

"A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires." - H Narasimhaia

Quote 2

2006-07-18T01:03:00.000-07:00

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" - Chinese Proverb

Quote 1

2006-07-15T01:02:00.000-07:00

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch