Education

Real Education is the one that takes your hearts and minds towards the right direction - Vivekananda

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” —Robert Frost

"By education, then, I mean goodness in the form in which it is first acquired by a child ... the rightly disciplined state of pleasures and pains whereby a man from his first beginnings on will abhor what he should abhor and relish what he should relish." -- Plato, Laws, Book II (1)

"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree." -- John F. Kennedy, The New York Times, June 12, 1962 (3)

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1)

"A college education doesn't make fools; it merely develops them." (2)

"My whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard." -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1)

"A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying." -- James B. Conant, Time (September 29, 1986) (3)

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him." -- Franklin (2)

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -- Winston Churchill, speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (3)

"Education is most important to men: you must either go to college, or start your own business so that you can hire men who did." (2)

"It is only the ignorant who despise education." -- Publilius Syrus, Maxim 571 (1)

"Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability." -- Francis Bacon, Of Studies (3)

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure." (2)

"I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn"? -- Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1)

"Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." -- Lord Chesterfield, Letters to his Son, February 22 1748 (3)

"Only the educated are free." -- Epictetus, Discourses (1)

"Education has for its object the formation of character." -- Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (2)

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." -- Lord Brougham, attributed (3)

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." -- Mark Twain, A Curious Dream (3)

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education." -- Plutarch, Morals. Of the Training of Children (1)

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values." -- William Ralph Inge, The Training of the Reason (3)

"Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education." -- Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1)

"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education." -- John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door (3)

"Education begins when your father sends you to college, and is completed when you send your son there." (2)

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -- Robert Frost, Reader's Digest (April 1960) (3)

"Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned." -- Saying (1)

Citation Information:

(1): Bartlett, John. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Fifteenth Edition. Little, Brown, & Company. 1980.

(2): Esar, Evan. 20,000 Quips & Quotes. Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1995.

(3): The Oxford Essentials Quotations Dictionary, American Edition. Oxford University Press, Inc. 1998.