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    We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is read more

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Education Quotes,
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

by Theodore Roosevelt Found in: Education Quotes,
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By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Education Quotes,
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

by Laertius Diogenes Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.

by Hosea Ballou Found in: Education Quotes,
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