I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Education Quotes
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is credited to John Dewey, but the wording is a paraphrase. He expressed the idea in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916) using other words, and the compressed version circulates as if it were a direct quotation. The Einstein line about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is flagged as well.
The sourced entries are less tidy and better. Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus (1833), called it a tragedy that a man should die ignorant who had the capacity for knowledge. Bertrand Russell argued in Sceptical Essays (1928) that education had become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Eric Hoffer, in Before the Sabbath (1979), wrote that the best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power.
Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
The gender gap in education might really stem from sons’ greater vulnerability to father absence.
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?
Animal training may give one the means to make a living; liberal education gives living a meaning.
Whoever is concerned about his education should be on his guard against propaganda.