Education Quotes - Page 12

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on - because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

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

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

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