Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Quotes
Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCEducation has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCThat which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670