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Education Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
- 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 chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
- The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for…
- The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.
- There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
- That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe