946 private quotes tagged education

“Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.”— Jim Rohn

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.”— Pete Seeger

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”— William James

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”— Isaac Asimov

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”— Michael Jackson

“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”— Sammy Davis, Jr.

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”— Michelle Obama

“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”— Robert Kiyosaki

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”— Jane Austen

“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”— Epictetus

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”— Karl Rove

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”— Kofi Annan

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”— Robert E. Lee

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.”— Charles Stanley

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”— Booker T. Washington

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”— John Locke

“Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.”— Malcolm X

“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”— W. E. B. Du Bois

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”— Evan Esar

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”— William Ralph Inge

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”— John W. Gardner

“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”— Thomas Sowell

“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”— Maria Montessori

“We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau