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.
Three reasons why young people don't have to worry about their future: education, politics and me.
“Every child has the right to be educated. Education in Botswana must be compulsory.”
Unlike property, which can be inherited, education can never be inherited.
Education opens doors and gives an individual option in life.
Education with humility leads to wisdom; without humility, it leads to arrogance.
"Power, infrastructure, education, security and the rule of law must take precedence."
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.