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
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde 
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Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Hillary Clinton
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Samuel Richardson
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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