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\"Education<\/a>
Education and school quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Education quotes, aphorisms and quotations about education, school and learning, with some very brilliant and humorous thoughts by great authors of all time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
\nJohn Florio<\/span><\/p>\n

Lack of judgment is precisely what is called stupidity, and there is absolutely no remedy for this defect. A dull and limited brain, lacking nothing except a suitable measure of intellect and precision in its concepts, can certainly be trained through study, even to the point of achieving erudition. However, since judgment is usually also lacking in such cases, one not infrequently encounters highly erudite men who, in the use of their knowledge, often reveal this incurable defect.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

Education should instill the idea that humanity is one family with common interests.<\/span><\/span> That, consequently, cooperation is more important than competition.<\/span><\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Education, the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.<\/span>
\nT.H. White, The Once and Future King<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. <\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Much learning does not teach understanding.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

Education should aim to free the minds of young people, not to imprison them in a rigid armor of dogmas designed to protect them, in life, from the dangers of impartial evidence. The world needs open minds and hearts, not rigid systems, old or new.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

School has been very useful to me, in fact, observing the imbecility of my teachers, I have become a scholar of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.<\/span>
\nC.S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people acquire an education without going to college, while others gain it after graduation. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.<\/span>
\nNiccolo Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning never exhausts the mind.<\/span>
\nLeonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

I was educated once; it took me years to get over it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the student is truly ready, the teacher disappears.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.<\/span>
\nAlfred North Whitehead<\/span><\/p>\n

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.<\/span>
\nJohn Locke<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge unfits a man to be a slave.<\/span>
\nFrederick Douglass<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

People think of education as something that they can finish… but education isn’t something you can finish.
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom… comes not from age, but from education and learning.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/span><\/p>\n

Language is \u201cthe infinite use of finite means.\u201d <\/span>
\nWilhelm von Humboldt<\/span><\/p>\n

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.<\/span>
\nMary Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education [at an institution] is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. <\/span>
\nPaul Kark Feyerabend<\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing a student should understand to have success is that of becoming a self-taught man. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of education is to empower individuals to think critically.<\/span>
\nJohn Locke<\/span><\/p>\n

Good manners consists in hiding how well we think of ourselves and how badly we think of others.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don\u2019t know how to be submissive, and so on, because they\u2019re dysfunctional to the institutions. <\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Education\u2019s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.<\/span>
\nMalcolm S. Forbes<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike \u2013 and I don\u2019t think there really is a distinction between the two \u2013 are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.<\/span>
\nHarold Bloom<\/span><\/p>\n

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. <\/span>
\nSamuel Beckett<\/span><\/p>\n

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. <\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

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Education quote by Aristotle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. <\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. <\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes.<\/span>
\nC.S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Education has two purposes: on the one hand, it shapes the spirit, on the other, it prepares the citizen. The Athenians focused on the first, the Spartans on the other. The Spartans won, but the Athenians were remembered.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Private schools, pretentious educational and political institutions, with a lot of university teachers most commonly and pompously called professors are clearly more interested in making money than in spreading\u00a0 pedagogical matters, logic and common sense, also because before teaching you must first be able to learn. (in order to teach you must before be able to learn).
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.<\/span>
\nRobert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Education is the organized defense of adults against youth.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.<\/span>
\nOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.<\/span>
\nWalter Lippmann<\/span><\/p>\n

A great number of people talk too much, but pragmatically act too little, and if they try, they can only do stupid and dangerous things. Any references to Italian politicians are quite imaginary and clearly unreal.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.
\nEdward Judson<\/span><\/p>\n

Any company that aspires to succeed in the tougher business environment of the 1990s must first resolve a basic dilemma: success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don\u2019t know how to learn. What\u2019s more, those members of the organization that many assume to be the best at learning are, in fact, not very good at it. <\/span>
\nChris Argyris<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t like clear matters, they don’t concern me enough!
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I may have said the same thing before… but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200eIt is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.”
\nJorge Luis Borges, Prologue to “El otro, el mismo.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Education<\/a>
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Form and substance: Hjelmslev introduced the notion that both expression and content have substance and form. In this framework signs have four dimensions: substance of content; form of content; substance of expression; form of expression.<\/span><\/p>\n

Education, knowledge, culture and experience are fundamental to help you find what you are looking for.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Without goals, the very concept of intelligence is meaningless.<\/span>
\nSteven Pinker<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.<\/span>
\nMikhail Bulgakov<\/span><\/p>\n

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-\u00e0-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments \u2013 and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.<\/span>
\nJiddu Krishnamurti<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.<\/span>
\nFriedrich August von Hayek<\/span><\/p>\n

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.<\/span>
\nMark Zuckerberg<\/span><\/p>\n

They know enough who know how to learn. <\/span>
\nHenry Brooks Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. <\/span>
\nJim Rohn<\/span><\/p>\n

Since we cannot know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.<\/span>
\nJohn Holt<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. <\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

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