Graduation Swag

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. - Dorothy Parker

I graduated first in my class from alibi school. - Jeffrey McDaniel

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. - Claus Moser

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. - Horace

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age. - Malcolm Muggeridge

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. - Dalai Lama

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. - Bob Talbert

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. - Voltaire

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. - John F Kennedy

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

College Education: A four-year plan for confusing a young mind methodically. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

Philosophy may teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbors. - Oscar Wilde

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Martin Barzun

The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. - Oprah Winfrey

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. - Seymour Papert

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then do something. Don't just stand there; make something happen. - Lee Iacocca

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. - Woodrow Wilson

Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don't get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us. - Whitney Mandel