Some interesting quotes about education

Today’s HOME Spun Wisdom

Never stop learning! Here are some quotes about education from some of history’s brightest.

RISMEDIA, June 20, 2006—It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
- Claiborne Pell (1918 - )

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
- Clive James

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes Laertius

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)