Quotes about Education
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
-- Burk Hudson
Get ImageEducation is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.Get Image
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Get Image
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
-- Bill Vaughan
Get ImageThe aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
-- Bill Beattie
Get ImageOne of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of powGet Image
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Get Image
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Get Image
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