Herbert Spencer Quotes

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Education made us what we are.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Education is equally important in one's life.

I'd been going to school up to the third term of year 11 at MLC, and there was no point in dropping out. Having gone through Year 12, there's so much that helps you acquire the knowledge you need. It helps you in life.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

As students, it's important that irrespective of whatever you are doing, you educate yourself, as that gives you certain standing in public.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Few things are as essential as education.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.