Education Quotes

• "The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."
  By: John Updike, The Centaur, 1963
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• "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
  By: Jim Rohn
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• "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
  By: Jefferson, Thomas
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• "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done--men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."
  By: Jean Piaget
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• "I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
  By: James, Alice
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• "The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."
  By: Jackson, Michael
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• "If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public."
  By: Isocrates Against the Sophists
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• "The public school has become the established church of secular society."
  By: Illich, Ivan
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• "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly."
  By: Huxley, Thomas H.
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• "Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."
  By: Hutchins, Robert M.
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• "The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
  By: Hutchins, Robert M.
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• "The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
  By: Hutchins, Robert M.
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• "He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
  By: Hugo, Victor
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• "You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."
  By: Hubbard, Elbert
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• "Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former."
  By: Horace Mann
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• "People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have."
  By: Holt, John
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