“I’ve always believed in the transformative power of education,”
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.
Education remains one of the greatest investments any society can make in its future.
The type of education that is safe for our peace is the education that has no bitterness.”
The British must leave because they have given us only puny education.
Education is most important so they won't be in the dark like us.
I believe in sex education and freedom though. It’s needed in Africa.
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
'Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.