Education Quotes and Education Sayings Only the educated are free.English proverbTraditional attribution
Education and Educational Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.William Lowe BryanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation).Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir-AggreyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Studyation beat Education.Bajan ProverbTraditional attribution
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.Will DurantAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.Neil PostmanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Seek education from the cradle to the grave.Arabic proverbTraditional attribution
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.George SantayanaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university.Desmond BagleyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.Malcolm S. ForbesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence ThomasAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Peter BroughamAttributed in the original GADEL collection
They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation.Richard YatesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.Greek proverbTraditional attribution
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward EverettAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.Robert G. IngersollAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, ‘As much as the living are to the dead.’Diogenes LaetiusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.Frederick W.RobertsonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.Native American sayingTraditional attribution
I am still learning.MichelangeloAttributed in the original GADEL collection
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.Alfred MercierAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.Martin H. FischerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.Robin CookAttributed in the original GADEL collection
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.Joseph AddisonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is the transmission of civilization.Will DurantAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Seek education even if it takes you to China.Arabic proverbTraditional attribution
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.Martin Luther King, Jr.Attributed in the original GADEL collection
Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.Benjamin DisraeliAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.George SavileAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is a gift that none can take away.American proverbTraditional attribution
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G.M. TrevelyanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.Martin H. FischerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.Michel Eyquem de MontaigneAttributed in the original GADEL collection
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor HugoAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is what you know, not what’s in the book.Egyptian proverbTraditional attribution
A child without education, is like a bird without wings.Tibetan proverbTraditional attribution
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan BloomAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Much education today is monumentally ineffective.John W. GardnerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.Italian proverbTraditional attribution
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.Will RogersAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger LewinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.John DeweyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education.Albert Edward WiggamAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity.Mrs. H. O. WardAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If you think education is expensive try ignorance.African proverbTraditional attribution
It is only the ignorant who despise education.Publius SyrusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.ErasmusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.PlutarchAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. GrayAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.Smiley BlantonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.Norman JusterAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.English proverbTraditional attribution
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Original title: Education and Educational Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs to Boost Your Intellect
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