Quotations About Education

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. 
Robert Maynard Hutchins
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. 
Robert Maynard Hutchins
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice.  That's what I call a liberal education.  
Tallulah Bankhead
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.  
Robert Brault
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.  
G.K. Chesterton
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.  
Will Rogers
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  
Roger Lewin
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation.  What they mean is that we go to school longer.  It is not the same thing.  
Richard Yates
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." 
Peter Brodie
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.  
Ernest Renan

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