One Hundred Eighty

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. – Mark Twain

One Hundred Seventy-Eight

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. – John Mason Brown

He has learned to no purpose that is not able to teach. – Samuel Johnson

One Hundred Seventy-Seven

Teachers don’t just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills. – Charles Platt

Good schools are schools for the development of the whole child. They seek to help children develop to their maximum their social powers and their intellectual powers, their emotional capacities, their physical powers. – James L. Hymes, Jr.

One Hundred Seventy-Six

I believe in the existence of a great, immutable principle of natural law, or natural ethics which proves the absolute right of every human being that comes into the world an education; and which, of course, proves the correlative duty of every government to see that the means of that education are provided for all. – Horace Mann

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. – Sam Houston

One Hundred Sixty-Eight

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Mandell Creighton

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than giving of right answers. - Josef Albers

One Hundred Sixty-Seven

The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is true for first graders as graduate students, for fledgling artists as graying accountants. - Laurent A. Daloz

One Hundred Sixty-Six

The classroom and the teacher occupy the most important position of the human fabric.... In the schoolhouse we have the heart of the whole society. - Henry Golden

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. - A. Bartlett Giamatti

One Hundred Sixty-Five

Education can train, but not create, intelligence.
– Edward McChesney Sait

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
– Eugene S. Wilson

One Hundred Sixty-Four

He is educated who knows where to find out what he doesn’t know.
– George Simmel

One Hundred Sixty-One

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
– Marcus T. Cicero

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.
– Desiderius Erasmus

One Hundred Sixty

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
– George Santayana

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
– Herbert Spencer

One Hundred Fifty-Eight

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
– Robert Frost

One Hundred Fifty-Two

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education—if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon—all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

One Hundred Fifty-One

All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
– Juvenal

Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and education. – Abraham Flexner

One Hundred Forty-Nine

People who aren't in education just don't know what they're missing. – Keith Blue

One Hundred Forty-Five

What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better. – John Holt

They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Brooks Adams

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

One Hundred Forty-Four

Those who trust us educate us. – George Eliot

One Hundred Forty-Two

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. – Paulo Freire

One Hundred Forty-One

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. – Felix E. Schelling

Genius without education is like Silver in the Mine.
– Benjamin Franklin

One Hundred Forty

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. – Margaret Mead