Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. – Chuck Palahniuk
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. – Aleister Crowley
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. – James Madison
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. – Harry S. Truman
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. – John Ruskin
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. – Benjamin Disraeli
The education of a man is never completed until he dies. – Robert E. Lee
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – John Ruskin
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. – Norman Cousins
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. – Ernest Istook
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. – Plutarch
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin
History is a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. Wells
