Home » Education Education 1 Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo Education, Common Sense Add to Collection 2 He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo Education, School, Door Add to Collection 3 The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr Education, Character, Goal Add to Collection 4 Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Woodrow Wilson Education, Great, Science Add to Collection 5 The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. William James Education, Good, Man Add to Collection 6 Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats Education, Fire, Lighting Add to Collection 7 Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. Will Smith Life, Education, Facts Add to Collection 8 Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. Isabel Allende Family, Education, Work Add to Collection 9 Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov Education, Believe, Kind Add to Collection 10 America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. Will Rogers Education, Ignorance, Belong Add to Collection 11 There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. Will Rogers Education, Movies, Only Add to Collection 12 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 Education, Work, Learn Add to Collection 13 Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers Education, Ignorant, Only Add to Collection 14 I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney Education, Hope, People Add to Collection 15 Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. W. E. B. Du Bois Life, Education, Work Add to Collection 16 Education is the development of power and ideal. W. E. B. Du Bois Education, Power, Ideal Add to Collection 17 Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. W. E. B. Du Bois Education, Work, People Add to Collection 18 The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races. W. E. B. Du Bois Education, Death, Best Add to Collection 19 Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. W. E. B. Du Bois Life, Education, Work Add to Collection 20 A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. W. E. B. Du Bois Education, School, Training Add to Collection 21 Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. W. E. B. Du Bois Education, School, Training Add to Collection 22 I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Arthur Schopenhauer Education, Reading, Trouble Add to Collection 23 Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Education, Art, Man Add to Collection 24 Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Mark Twain Education, Consists, Mainly Add to Collection 1 2 3 next › last »