Quotes About:  Education

Edward Everett 

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Will Durant 

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Robert Frost 

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

B. F. Skinner 

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

G. M. Trevelyan 

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Malcolm Forbes 

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Michel de Montaigne 

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Mark Twain 

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Aristotle 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Ambrose Bierce 

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.