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.
"My parents believed that with enough education, I could own the world,"
What comes to my mind when I think of South African literature is awareness and education
I believe it starts with education and knowledge, so we can then co-create worlds and technologies
let us dedicate this new decade to the grand enterprise of a great education for Puerto Rico.
fundamentally it is a problem of education, of early training-we must bring up feminist sons.
...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.
It affects all of us when our education system fails our children
My father used to tell us that the only gift he could ever give us was an education.