2. Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny. - Charles Barkley
3. The mere imparting of information is not education. - Carter G. Woodson
4. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. - Abigail Adams
5. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? - Erich Fromm
6. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. - Carl Rogers
7. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins
8. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber
9. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison
10. If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. - Heinrich Heine
11. If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. - Maynard James Keenan
12. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer
13. If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. - Abu Bakr
14. He who laughs most, learns best. - John Cleese
15. I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. - Tallulah Bankhead
16. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. - Ezra Pound
17. Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. - Zhuangzi
18. From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. - Dick Cheney
19. The willingness to learn new skills is very high. - Angela Merkel
20. If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. - Cornelius Vanderbilt
21. The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. - Alvin Toffler
22. To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. - Caroline Kennedy
23. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. - Annie Dillard
24. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner
25. Good questions outrank easy answers. - Paul Samuelson
26. Education is all a matter of building bridges. - Ralph Ellison
27. An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick the Great
28. Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin
29. Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. - Havelock Ellis
30. Responsibility educates. - Wendell Phillips
31. Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. - Oswald Chambers
32. Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom
33. If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. - Oscar Hammerstein II
34. You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. - Conrad Hall
35. Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. - Clifford Stoll
36. A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. - Charles Kuralt
37. It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. - Harvey S. Firestone
38. An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. - Alan K. Simpson
39. Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. - Ann Bancroft
40. I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. - Al Green
41. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. - Alice Miller
42. You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. - Tammy Faye Bakker
43. I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. - Al McGuire
44. Man is what he reads. - Joseph Brodsky
45. It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. - Joseph Brodsky
46. Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan
47. Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. - Amos Bronson Alcott
48. The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. - Ernest Renan
49. I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. - Leon Spinks
50. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. - Russell Baker
51. America is the best half-educated country in the world. - Nicholas M. Butler
52. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. - Muriel Spark
53. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert M. Hutchins
54. A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. - A. Bartlett Giamatti
55. Every educated person is a future enemy. - Martin Bormann
56. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. - Edward Everett
57. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. - Pauline Phillips
58. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. - Ernest Dimnet
59. If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. - Janet Napolitano
60. Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. - Joshua Reynolds
61. The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. - William Temple
62. Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. - Parker Palmer
63. I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. - Felix Bloch
64. Learning teaches more in one year than experience in twenty. - Roger Ascham
65. While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. - Bobby Scott
66. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. - Gail Godwin
67. Our universities and museums are respected around the country. - Jane Byrne
68. If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. - Kathy Reichs
69. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X
70. Don't let schooling interfere with your education. - Mark Twain
71. A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. - W. E. B. Du Bois
72. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge
73. The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. - Jean Piaget
74. For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. - Abraham Lincoln
75. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. - Plato
76. Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. - Maria Montessori
77. 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. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
78. 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. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
79. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. - Kofi Annan
80. You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. - Ravi Zacharias
81. I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period. - Kamala Harris
82. Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
83. The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller
84. I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family. - Katherine Johnson
85. You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. - Malcolm X
86. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori
87. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? - Maria Montessori
88. We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. - Maria Montessori
89. Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education! - Maria Montessori
90. At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. - Maria Montessori
91. If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. - Maria Montessori
92. Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. - Maria Montessori
93. Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position. - Maria Montessori
94. When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. - Maria Montessori
95. Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. - John Locke
96. Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. - Joseph Stalin
97. The education of a man is never completed until he dies. - Robert E. Lee
98. The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
99. If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. - Malala Yousafzai
100. In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. - Malala Yousafzai
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