quotations about education
Though men be endowed with beauty and youth, and be born in a noble family, yet without education, they are like a palas tree, which is void of any sweet smell.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself -- educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."
DORIS LESSING
introduction, The Golden Notebook
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Educator's Book of Quotes
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Journal
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
FRANK ZAPPA
attributed, College Is for Suckers
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Hogfather
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite.
BARACK OBAMA
Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009