Quotes About Education

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.     G.K. Chesterton


The 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


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.      Sydney J. Harris


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.      Albert Einstein


The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.      Franklin D. Roosevelt


It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.


An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Attributed to both :Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok


It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.      Robert G. Ingersoll


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


To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.      A.A. Milne


Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.      Abraham Flexner


Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.      Edward Everett


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