Cognitive skills either exist in such profusion (through schooling) or are so easily developed on the job that they are not a criterion for hiring. Thus the education-related workers attributes that employers willingly pay for must be predominantly affective characteristics--personality traits, attitudes, modes of self-presentation and motivation.
H. Gintis
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
OliverWendell Holmes Jr.
All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
Alvin Toffler
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.
Erasmus
Our best chance for happiness is education.
Mark VanDorn
Information cannot replace education.
Imparato and Itarari
Two professions most notably regarded as filled with "nonlisteners" are medicine and education!
Earl Koile
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom S. Forbes
Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in the world of work and to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; To train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
Hannah Arendt, Teaching as Leading
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Hegel, 1821
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: Education for living andeducating for making a living.
James Mason Wood
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Friedrich Schlegel, 1798
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
Joseph Addison, 1711
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?
Vachel Lindsay
Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
John Lennon (1940-1980)
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Berenson Bernard
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
