Famous Quotes

"Education has for its object the formation of character."

Herbert Spencer on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

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

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

• "The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."

• "In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."

• "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

• "We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."

• "Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."