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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One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
Bill Lear 
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
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I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
Kathleen Sebelius
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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Munshi Premchand
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Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Rita Mae Brown
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
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