quotations about education
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
EDWARD EVERETT
Public Documents of Massachusetts, 1868
True men are not supplied by school; if they are nevertheless there, they are there in spite of school.
MAX STIRNER
The False Principle of Our Education
Try not to have a good time ... this is supposed to be educational.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
There's No Time for Love
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.
JOHN UPDIKE
The Centaur
Education is in no small measure preparing the way for the intellectual life and pointing to it. Those who cannot enter in at its gates are doomed, in Leonardo da Vinci's words, to "possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world." For them life must be short, however many its years, and barren, however plentiful its acts. Their ears are deaf to the call of the indwelling Reason, and their eyes are blind to all the meaning and the values of human experience.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
lecture at Columbia University, Mar. 4, 1908
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD
Essays on the Higher Education
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.
MAX STIRNER
The False Principle of Our Education
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
College mostly makes people like bladders--just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS
attributed, Christianity & Culture
I consider that it is on instruction and education, that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.
LAJOS KOSSUTH
The Future of Nations
To develop in each individual all the perfection of which he is susceptible, is the object of education.
IMMANUEL KANT
attributed, American Education: Its Principles and Elements
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Atoms of Thought
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
How can man be intelligent, happy, or useful, without the culture and discipline of education? It is this that smooths and polishes the roughnesses of his nature. It is this that unlocks the prison-house of his mind, and releases the captive.
HERMAN HUMPHREY
an address delivered at the Collegiate Institution in Amherst, Oct. 15, 1823
The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.
BARACK OBAMA
press conference, Mar. 17, 2009
Getting an education by itself, of course, does not guarantee financial success. There must, after all, be an increase in demand for educated labor to match the increase in supply.
FRANK LEVY
The Economic Future of American Families: Income and Wealth Trends
The enthusiastic advocate of what is new in educational ideas--as to subjects, methods, curricula, organization, etc.--regards it as highly unfortunate that institutions are not so plastic, so easy to change, as are ideas. The man who is wise in practical affairs, and profound in his reflections upon the truths of history, knows that, on the contrary, this abiding and relatively stable character of the institutional expression of ideas is the fortunate thing about educational, as about other forms of progress. Most fortunate of all are those institutions which change just fast and far enough to conserve the priceless lessons of the past, while unfolding constantly to receive the suggestions of the better time coming.
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD
preface, Essays on the Higher Education
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
TOM STOPPARD
The Invention of Love
In the march of universal improvement, education must lead the van.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts