Quotes about what Education is

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about. Votes: 4

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about Votes: 3

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built. Votes: 3

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake. Votes: 3

Education is what you learn after you leave school. Votes: 2

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. Votes: 2

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. Votes: 2

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Votes: 2

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Votes: 2

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Votes: 2

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope. Votes: 2

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. Votes: 2

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Votes: 2

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. Votes: 2

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. Votes: 2

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. Votes: 2

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Votes: 2

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Votes: 2

I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me. Votes: 2

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. Votes: 2

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. Votes: 2

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster. Votes: 2

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Votes: 2

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? Votes: 2

Education made us what we are. Votes: 0

Education is what allows you to stand out Votes: 0

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Votes: 0

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head. Votes: 0

What we suffer from today is an excess of education. Votes: 0

To be successful in life what you need is education. Votes: 0

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education. Votes: 0

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned. Votes: 0

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Votes: 0

Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world. Votes: 0

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. Votes: 0

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! Votes: 0

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. Votes: 0

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. Votes: 0

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy. Votes: 0

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away. Votes: 0

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being. Votes: 0

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. Votes: 0

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. Votes: 0

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. Votes: 0

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think. Votes: 0

Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be. Votes: 0

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. Votes: 0

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. Votes: 0

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race. Votes: 0

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten. Votes: 0

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. Votes: 0

Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn? Votes: 0

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. Votes: 0

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. Votes: 0

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. Votes: 0

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in. Votes: 0

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. Votes: 0

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner. Votes: 0

Just know what you're talking about and if you don't, look it up. Education. Votes: 0

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. Votes: 0

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Votes: 0

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education. Votes: 0

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need. Votes: 0

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying. Votes: 0

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Votes: 0

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn? Votes: 0

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it? Votes: 0

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love? Votes: 0

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Votes: 0

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher. Votes: 0

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. Votes: 0

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. Votes: 0

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. Votes: 0

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. Votes: 0

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system? Votes: 0

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world? Votes: 0

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true. Votes: 0

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life. Votes: 0

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn Votes: 0

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students). Votes: 0

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education. Votes: 0

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on? Votes: 0

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene. Votes: 0

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television. Votes: 0

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about. Votes: 0

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child Votes: 0

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't. Votes: 0

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have. Votes: 0

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. Votes: 0

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience iswhat you get from not reading it. Votes: 0

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years. Votes: 0

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Votes: 0

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract. Votes: 0

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. Votes: 0

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability. Votes: 0

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. Votes: 0

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most Votes: 0

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education. Votes: 0

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness. Votes: 0

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education. Votes: 0

And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration. Votes: 0

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? Votes: 0

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away. Votes: 0

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away. Votes: 0

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success. Votes: 0

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all. Votes: 0

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education. Votes: 0

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! Votes: 0

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own. Votes: 0

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others. Votes: 0

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. Votes: 0

I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education. Votes: 0

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. Votes: 0

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought. Votes: 0

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'. Votes: 0

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom. Votes: 0

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. Votes: 0

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly. Votes: 0

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. Votes: 0

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. Votes: 0

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. Votes: 0

Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you? Votes: 0

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? Votes: 0

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get. Votes: 0

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can. Votes: 0

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire. Votes: 0

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire. Votes: 0

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe. Votes: 0

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. Votes: 0

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow. Votes: 0

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills. Votes: 0

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them. Votes: 0

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics. Votes: 0

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. Votes: 0

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present. Votes: 0

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'. Votes: 0

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am. Votes: 0

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing. Votes: 0

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing. Votes: 0

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. Votes: 0

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life. Votes: 0

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. Votes: 0

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different. Votes: 0

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get. Votes: 0

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model. Votes: 0

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on. Votes: 0

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? Votes: 0

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. Votes: 0

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be. Votes: 0

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? Votes: 0

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children. Votes: 0

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about. Votes: 0

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all? Votes: 0

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture. Votes: 0

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. Votes: 0

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth. Votes: 0

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from. Votes: 0

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools. Votes: 0

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom. Votes: 0

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults. Votes: 0

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Votes: 0

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Votes: 0

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness. Votes: 0

You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over. Votes: 0

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself. Votes: 0

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else. Votes: 0

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple. Votes: 0

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise. Votes: 0

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first. Votes: 0

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film. Votes: 0

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass. Votes: 0

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education. Votes: 0

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'? Votes: 0

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. Votes: 0

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education. Votes: 0

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. Votes: 0

Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed Votes: 0

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education. Votes: 0

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy, Votes: 0

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy. Votes: 0

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means. Votes: 0

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Votes: 0

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up. Votes: 0

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. Votes: 0

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. Votes: 0

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. Votes: 0

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students. Votes: 0

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . . Votes: 0