Quotes on Education

Although getting up and going to class can be an absolute hassle, the benefits of getting a good education far outweigh the inconvenience of attending class and taking tests.  Educated people tend to rely on words, not sticks, to resolve their conflicts.  Furthermore, gaining knowledge for future use can only help you in the long run.  Here are some quotes on the purpose, value, and positive aspects of education.

1. "A school should not be a preparation for life.  A school should be life."
~Elbert Hubbard

2. College is a place where a student ought to learn not so much how to make a living, but how to live.
~William Nolen, M.D.

3. The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
~Grayson Kirk

4. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.
~Napolean Hill

5. Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again...And what do we teach our children?  We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.  When will we also teach them what they are?
~Pablo Casals

6. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think- rather to improve our minds, as as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
~Bill Beattie

7. An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
~Unknown

8. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~Andy McIntyre

9. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~Edward Everett

10. Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

11. I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as bartender and six month as a cabdriver.  Then they would really be educated.
~Al McGuire