Creative Quotations about Education Awesome Collection
{YBA} Study and reading improves a child’s writing ability. While it is easy to say that a speaker is a good one just by listening to his pronunciation and delivery, not all good speakers are good writers.
There are good speakers but when it’s time for them to write, they find it hard to construct good written sentences. But a person who is good in writing, is most probably, good in speaking as well.
To improve a child’s writing skills, it is important to expose him to the correct and formal usage of language through the published books that he reads.
1. Abraham Flexner
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
2. Edward Everett
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
3. Ezra Pound
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
4. Robert Maynard Hutchins
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
5. Mark Twain
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.
6. Robert Maynard Hutchins
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
7. Erich Fromm
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
8. Martin H. Fischer
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
9. William Haley
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
10. Tallulah Bankhead
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
11. George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
12. R. Baker
incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
13. Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
14. Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist,” 1890
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
15. Leighann Lord
Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It’s nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it’s anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we’ll all be hooked on phonics.
