EDUCATION QUOTES III

quotations about education

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

ELLEN GILCHRIST

Falling Through Space


The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures.

SYDNEY SMITH

Essays Social and Political


Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God


Spending money on higher education is like spending it on defense. You suspect half of it is wasted, but you cannot tell which half.

SIMON JENKINS

The Guardian, May 31, 2019


The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

JONATHAN ALTER

Newsweek, Jun. 15, 2009


It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

PHILIP SIDNEY

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney


It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

The Field of Philosophy


A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

ÉMILE ZOLA

The Masterpiece


If good primary education is like the strong stem of any tree of a society, higher education is like the fruits of that tree which are reaped in the form of socio-economic, industrial and technological development ultimately leading any nation towards better quality of life.

SUKHDEV SINGH

"Higher Education in Punjab", Punjab Society: Perspectives and Challenges


That's what education should be ... the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

PLATO

The Republic


Institutional learning facilities are traps intended to control the mind, subdue the soul, and keep you in debt until you're too old to cause trouble.... Step-by-step, inch-by-inch they will kill your ingenuity. Brick by brick, they'll enclose your mind, telling you what's right to think and what isn't.

RICK REMENDER

Black Science, No. 15, June 2015


What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Nov. 6, 1711


Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

SPIRO AGNEW

speech in Houston, May 22, 1970


Each nature requires its own education. The training which will help the man of undue self-esteem, will hurt the man who has too little. A chief end of life is to grow aright; and no man can grow aright.

LYMAN ABBOTT

A Study in Human Nature


I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

EDWIN H. LAND

address at MIT, "Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science", May 22, 1957


Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts