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Education has always had the power to change lives. Education quotes also have the power to educate in their own right. The road to success is lined with those who are willing to work hard to get themselves educated.

This last page of education quotes by these famous people has been an inspiration for me.

It is my hope that they were able to give you the inspiration to work at improving your own education if you have not already done so.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
-Robert Anthony

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

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
-Robert Green Ingersoll

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-Robert M. Hutchins

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
-Russell Baker

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
-Sydney J. Harris

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

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
-Tammy Faye Bakker

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
-Walt Disney

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
-Walter Annenberg

Responsibility educates.
-Wendell Phillips

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.
-Will Durant

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
-Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
-Will Rogers

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
-Daniel J. Boorstin

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
-Edith Hamilton

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
-Edward Everett

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
-Emma Goldman

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
-Erich Fromm

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
-Ernest Dimnet

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
-Ernest Renan

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

An educated people can be easily governed.
-Frederick The Great

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

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
-George Santayana

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
-George Washington Carver

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education, no man's education is complete.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
-Heinrich Heine

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
-Horace Mann

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
-John Dewey

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
-John Dewey

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-John W. Gardner

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
-Judy Chicago

One of my favorite education quotes is the one by John Dewey. He said, education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education quotes are are wonderful gift to share with others.

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