If the ads on television this week are a fair indicator -- there's no denying it, kids... it's almost time to go back to school. Teachers are busy preparing their classrooms, school administrators are checking and double-checking piles of paperwork and parents are scraping together the necessary funds to build a peer-worthy wardrobe for their little dudes and divas.
So -- whether your area schools are already in session or getting ready for their incoming students I'm happy to share a list of quotes about education to help you get to the head of the class! Enjoy and use them to spice up your emails, newsletters, website, presentation, meeting minutes and other presentations.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt 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 the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is 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 borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
