Education

(66 votes)   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.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(66 votes)   Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(66 votes)   Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

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(65 votes)   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.

John W. Gardner

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(65 votes)   No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

G. K. Chesterton

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(65 votes)   The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Mandell Creighton
1843-1901, British Historian, Bishop

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(65 votes)   True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Felix E. Schelling
1858-1945, American Educator

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(64 votes)   If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Andy McIntyre

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(64 votes)   There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(63 votes)   Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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(62 votes)   Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(62 votes)   Every new horizon begins with a branch of education

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(62 votes)   Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Sylvia Porter

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(61 votes)   It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

William Cobbett
1762-1835, British Journalist, Reformer

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(61 votes)   Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.''

Mao Zedong
1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State

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