quotations about education
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Nov. 6, 1711
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
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
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
Do you ask, then, what will educate your son? Your example will educate him.
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
Tales
Try not to have a good time ... this is supposed to be educational.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
There's No Time for Love
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
Better untaught than ill-taught.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
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
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
JOHN ADAMS
Thoughts on Government
College mostly makes people like bladders--just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual -- a slow-motion erosion of America’s relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times, Oct. 8, 2009
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
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
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
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Atoms of Thought
As a father should provide for the religious education of his children, so should a government for the instruction of its subjects.
CATHERINE SINCLAIR
Modern Accomplishments; The March of the Intellect
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Collected Works of G. K. CHESTERTON