Quotes
Quotes about Education
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.
'T is education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,--all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of
ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.
It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
