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No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentlecontempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -

rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load thememory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned inschool. ~Albert Einstein

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing toeconomize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has tohold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted inYou Said a Mouthful,Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyreand Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to haveeducation without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish whatis worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowedlargely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war andcivilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S.

Forbes

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to

be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead

wrong. ~R. Baker

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering

brook. ~Henry David Thoreau

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that

nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's

nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on

education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be

hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking

animals. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com

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

Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call

education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark,The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius

Vanderbilt

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to

another. ~G.K. Chesterton

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection;otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your

self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abb

Dimnet, Art ofThinking, 1928

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~Ambrose Bierce,The

Devil's Dictionary

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do

not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting

it. ~Aristotle

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to

university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more

dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young

people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John

W. Gardner

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was

educated in. ~Will Rogers

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack

of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer

With just enough learning to misquote. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards

and Scotch Reviewers"

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the

mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or

Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some

different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that

their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An

"education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must "teach" by homily and

precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is

pure and unmistakable tyranny. ~Richard Mitchell,The Underground Grammarian,

September 1982

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the

different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and

Derision. ~Lewis Carroll

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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger

Lewin

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is

that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a

bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ~Al

McGuire

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent

teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander

Matthews

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to

conquer the world. ~Heinrich Heine

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate

him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and

Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." ~Peter Brodie

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have

given his life. ~Ernest Renan,Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the

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incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin,

Democracy and Its Discontents

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to

reason incorrectly. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H.

Fischer

It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley

Peter Dunne

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. ~Pete Seeger

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms,

for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, anddo not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without

education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his

intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana

The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called

education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and

industry can't take you. ~John Updike,The Centaur, 1963

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You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a

little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think

somebody owes you a living. ~Will Rogers

My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell

my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your

job." ~Thomas L. Friedman

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the

other. ~George Eliot

Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking

questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists,the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being

impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter

what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you

never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the

telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that

you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang,High Weirdness

By Mail

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Inspiring Quotes

y Leadership

y Motivationaly Inspirationaly Successy Lifey Imaginationy Follow Your Dreams

y Building a Good Charactery Goals and Goal Settingy Words ofWisdomy Happinessy Personal Growthy Dealing with People

y Fear ofFailurey Don'tWorryy More inspiring quotes

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Follow Your Dreams

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread

softly because youtread onmy dreams.

W.B. YeatsGoconfidently inthe directionof your dreams. Live the

life you have imagined.

Henry David ThoreauEvery great dream begins with a dreamer. Always

remember, you have within youthe strength, the

patience, and the passionto reach for the stars tochange the world.

Harriet TubmanReach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream

deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull StarrAll men dream butnot equally. Those who dream by

night inthe dusty recesses oftheir minds wake inthe

day to find that itwas vanity; butthe dreamers oftheday are dangerous men, for they may acttheir dream

with open eyes tomake it possible.

T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is whenwe are in dreams awake.

Henry David ThoreauSooftentimes it happens thatwe live our lives inchains

And we never even knowwe have the key.

Lyrics from Already Gone, peformed by the Eaglesfor their 1974 On the Borderalbum

The end ofwisdom is to dream high enough notto losethe dream inthe seeking of it.

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William FaulknerI like the dreams ofthe future better thanthe history of

the past.

Patrick HenryHold fastto dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken

winged bird thatcannot fly.

Lanston HughesYoucannot dream yourself into a character: youmust

hammer and forge yourself intoone.Henry D. Thoreau

The future belongs tothose who believe inthe beauty of

their dreams.

Eleanor RooseveltCommitment leads to action. Action brings your dream

closer.

Marcia WiederDreams are the touchstones ofour character.

Henry David Thoreau

The question for each manto settle is notwhat he

would do if he had means, time, influence andeducational advantages; the question is what he will do

with the things he has. The moment a young man

ceases to dreamor to bemoan his lack ofopportunitiesand resolutely looks his conditions inthe face, and

resolves tochange them, he lays the corner-stone of a

solid and honorable success.

Hamilton Wright MabieThe bestway tomake your dreams come true is to

wake up.Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet

notthe details butthe quality.

Ralph Waldo EmersonOur waking hours formthe textofour lives, our dreams,

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the commentary.

AnonymousHope is the dreamofthe waking man.

French ProverbTounpathed waters, undreamed shores.

William Shakepeare

Goals and Goal Setting Quotations

Related Links:Inspirational Quotes | Success QuotesThe ability toconvert ideas tothings is the secrettooutward

success.

Henry Ward BeecherThe ability toconcentrate and touse your time well is everything if

youwantto succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for thatmatter.

Lee IacoccaA wise manwill make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis BaconIn everything the ends well defined are the secretof durable

success.

Victor Cousins

Winning isn't everything, butwanting towin is.Vince Lombardi

Failures dowhat is tension relieving,

while winners dowhat is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

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(as quoted inBrian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)A man should have any number of little aims aboutwhich he should

be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should

have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim

of his life.Samuel Butler

Goals are the fuel inthe furnace of achievement.Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

The great and glorious masterpiece ofman is to know howto live to purpose.

Michel de MontaigneAh, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

or what's a heaven for?

Robert BrowningThe significance of a man is not inwhat he attains but inwhat he

longs to attain.Kahlil Gibran

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, uponwhich one walks

as a matter ofcourse and prescriptive right.Aldous Huxley

If you don't knowwhere you are going,

you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi BerraSome men give up their designs whenthey have almost reached thegoal; while others, onthe contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at

the lastmoment, more vigorous efforts than before.

PolybiusLife can be pulled by goals just as surely as itcan be pushed by

drives.Viktor Frankl

The virtue lies inthe struggle, not inthe prize.

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Richard Monckton MilnesTo reach a port, we must sailSail, nottie at anchorSail, not drift.

Franklin Roosevelt

There is no happiness except inthe realizationthatwe haveaccomplished something.

Henry FordOur plans miscarry because they have no aim.When a man does not

knowwhat harbor he is making for, nowind is the rightwind.Seneca

It is not enough totake steps which may some day lead to a goal;

each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

JohannW

olfgang vonG

oethe

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims atmediocrity will be far shortof it.

Burmese SayingIn absence ofclearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to

performing daily acts oftrivia.

Author Unknown

Don't bunt. Aimoutofthe ballpark.

David OgilvyThere are twothings to aim at in life; firstto getwhat youwant, and

after thatto enjoy it. Only the wisestofmankind has achieved thesecond.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Words ofWisdom /

Thoughts to Live By

Nature and wisdomnever are at strife.

Plutarch

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois De La RochefoucauldThe artof being wise is knowing whattooverlook.

William JamesThe first step inthe acquisitionofwisdom is silence, the second listening,

the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Solomon Ibn GabriolYears teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

The wisdomofnations lies intheir proverbs,

which are brief and pithy.

William PennThe middle course is the best.

CleobulusThe only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes ofmankind, is

wisdom.

Thomas Huxley

A wise man learns by the mistakes ofothers,a fool by his own.Latin Proverb

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Nomanwas ever wise by chance.

SenecaNotto know at large ofthings remote

Fromuse, obscure and subtle, butto know

Thatwhich before us lies in daily life,

Is the prime wisdom.

John MiltonBy associating with wise people youwill become wise yourself.

Menander

The seatof knowledge is inthe head, ofwisdom,

inthe heart.William Hazlitt

Of all parts ofwisdomthe practice is the best.

John TillotsonThe more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Catherine the GreatA loving heart is the truestwisdom.

Charles DickensOne whounderstands much displays a greater simplicity ofcharacter than

one whounderstands little.

Alexander ChaseHow prone to doubt, howcautious are the wise!

HomerOn every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,

In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

Edward YoungThe manofwisdom is never oftwominds;

the manof benevolence never worries;

the manofcourage is never afraid.Confucius

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Dealing with People

Youmust look intoother people as well as atthem.Lord ChesterfieldA good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he

who plants kindness gathers love.

Basil

A man's own good breeding is the best security againstother people's ill

manners.

Lord ChesterfieldThe secretofmany a man's success inthe world resides in his insight into

the moods ofmen and his tact in dealing with them.

J.G.HollandTo rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give contentto your own lot: to

mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Thomas EdwardsHear the meaning withinthe word.

William Shakespeare

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness these by the chiefsage have been declared the elements of popularity.

Burmese ProverbKind words are the musicofthe world.

F.W.FaberWe are far more liable tocatch the vices thanthe virtues ofour associates.

Denis DiderotArguing with a fool proves there are two.

Doris M. Smith

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;

and letthose be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

George WashingtonLook to be treated by others

as you have treated others.Publius Syrus

Success in life, in anything,depends uponthe number of persons

thatone canmake himself agreeable to.

Thomas CarlyleNever partwithout loving words tothink of during your absence.Itmay be

that youwill notmeet again inthis life.

Jean Paul Richter

Letus believe neither halfofthe good people tell us ofourselves, nor halfofthe evil they say ofothers.

J.Petit SennThe more you say, the less people remember.

Franois Fnelon

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.William Thackeray

The soul ofconversation is sympathy.

Thomas CampbellIt is always good to know, ifonly in passing, charming human beings.It

refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

George Eliot

Every man is a volume if you know howto read him.

William Ellery Channing

Learnto regard the souls around you as parts of some grand instrument.It

is for each ofus to knowthe keys and stops, thatwe may draw forth theharmonies thatHe sleeping inthe silentoctaves.

Anonymous

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If evil be said ofthee, and if it be true, correctthyself; if it be a lie, laugh at

it.

EpictetusInmany things it is notwell to say, "Knowthyself"; it is better to say, "Know

others."Menander

The less people speak oftheir greatness,

the more we think of it.

Lord BaconHe who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers

and ceases when he has nomore to say is in possessionof some ofthe bestrequisites ofman.

Johann Casper LavaterMen are more mindful ofwrongs thanof benefits.

Proverb

A good word is an easy obligation; butnotto speak ill requires only oursilence; which costs us nothing.

John TillotsonIt requires less character to discover the faults ofothers than is does to

tolerate them.

J.Petit SennDonot forget small kindnesses and donot remember small faults.

Chinese Proverb

Fear ofFailure

Go back a little to leap further.John Clarke

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore RooseveltHalfofthe failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is

leaping.

Thomas HoodI failed my way to success.

Thomas EdisonOur doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oftmightwin,

by fearing to attempt.

William ShakespeareEvery failure brings with itthe seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Hill

Failure is blindness tothe strategic element in events; success isreadiness for instant actionwhenthe opportune moment arrives.

Newell D.HillisThey fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey AldrichWe learnwisdom from failure much more than success.We often

discover whatwe will do, by finding outwhatwe will not do.

Samuel Smiles

Iwas never afraid of failure, for Iwould sooner fail thannot be

among the best.

John Keats

It is foolish to fear what youcannot avoid.

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.Publius Syrus

He that is downneeds fear no fall.

John BunyanNever letthe fear of striking out get in your way.

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George Herman "Babe" RuthOne who fears failure limits his activities.

Failure is only the opportunity tomore

intelligently begin again.

Henry Ford

The greatestmistake youcanmake in life is tocontinually be afraid

youwill make one.Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but greatmindsrise above them.

Washington IrvingOur greatest glory consistnot innever falling, but in rising every

time we fall.

Oliver GoldsmithWherever we look uponthis earth, the opportunities take shape

withinthe problems.Nelson A. Rockefeller

Whatwould life be ifwe had nocourage to attempt anything?

Vincent van GoghThe greatestmen sometimes overshootthemselves, butthentheir

very mistakes are somany lessons of instruction.

Tom Browne

Experience teaches slowly, and atthe costofmistakes.

James A.FroudeIt is the wantof diligence, rather thanthe wantofmeans, that

causes most failures.Alfred Mercier

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--Iwell know.For it's a signthat he tried to surpass himself.

Georges ClemenceauHe who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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There is no failure except inno longer trying.

Elbert HubbardThere is no impossibility to himwho stands prepared toconquer

every hazard.

The fearful are the failing.Sarah J.Hale

Disappointments are tothe soul whatthunderstorms are tothe air.Johann C.F. von SchillerFailure teaches success.

Japanese Saying