946 private quotes tagged education

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”— B. F. Skinner

“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

“Responsibility educates.”— Wendell Phillips

“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

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

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”— Abigail Van Buren

“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.”— Anthony J. D'Angelo

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”— Tallulah Bankhead

“An educated people can be easily governed.”— Frederick The Great

“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

“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.”— Allen Klein

“I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.”— Al Green

“Every educated person is a future enemy.”— Martin Bormann

“Man is what he reads.”— Joseph Brodsky

“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.”— Cornelius Vanderbilt

“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”— Joseph Brodsky

“Our universities and museums are respected around the country.”— Jane Byrne

“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 Schlossberg

“I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.”— Leon Spinks

“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

“The willingness to learn new skills is very high.”— Angela Merkel

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”— Ezra Pound

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”— Karl Kraus

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”— Malcolm X