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“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
“ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
Isaac Asimov
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
Albert Einstein
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
Woody Allen
“My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.”
Woody Allen
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Mark Twain
“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
Mark Twain
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
Mark Twain
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Herbert George Wells
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
Ray Bradbury
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.”
Frank Zappa
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
“ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”
Arthur Hailey
“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”
Horace
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
Plato
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”
Plato
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
Plato
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
Plato
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
Plato
“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”
Plato
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
Aristotle
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Aristotle
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Aldous Huxley
“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero