Top Education Quotes
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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
All Education Quotes
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 
97% of people like this quote
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes 
90% of people like this quote
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin 
87% of people like this quote
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll 
87% of people like this quote
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 
86% of people like this quote
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley 
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris 
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins 
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The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson 
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein 
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