I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.