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"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

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

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

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

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

"Education is not preparation for life education is life itself."

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

"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."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

"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."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

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

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

"Learn to think continentally."

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style."

"When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny."

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

"Education is all a matter of building bridges."

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

"An educated people can be easily governed."

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."

"Education is the transmission of civilization."

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."

"Your library is your paradise."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

"It is always in season for old men to learn."

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."

"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."

"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

"It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual."

"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."

"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."

"The willingness to learn new skills is very high."

"To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us."

"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."

"You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God."

"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."

"I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool."

"Every educated person is a future enemy."

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

"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."

"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."

"I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students."

"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."

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

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

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."

"I've never let my school interfere with my education."

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."

"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

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

"Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."

"Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact."

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

"I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life."

"We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare."

"Nature has always had more force than education."

"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

"Education is the investment our generation makes in the future."

"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."

"The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family."

"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."

"Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved."

"I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon."

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

"There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want."

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."

"Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience."

"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world."

"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

"I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others."

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality."

"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."

"There is no education like adversity."

"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."

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

"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?"

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"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."

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

"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."

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

"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 very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

"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."

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"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."

"Segregation has no place in the education system."

"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."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."

"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."

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."

"Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

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

"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself."

"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."

"As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."

"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."

"An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind."

"You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education."

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."

"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R."

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."

"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."

"Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."

"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."

"For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough."

"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education."

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life."

"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities."

"You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education."

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

"The mere imparting of information is not education."

"Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies."

"I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need."

"Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."

"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."

"Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure."

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."