Quotes on “education”

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

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

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

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