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.
Technology will outpace traditional classrooms... Education is no longer about certificates.
We will continue the free and compulsory education programme with a touch of class.
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
Love, though sweet, must know its proper station
And never seek to rival education.
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The mainstream media does have a liberal bias, as does a lot of... higher education, academia...