quotations about education
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
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 without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS
attributed, Christianity & Culture
As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.
LEONID ANDREYEV
The Life of Man
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
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
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
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
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
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
'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE
Moral Essays
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
In the march of universal improvement, education must lead the van.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
Tell me one more time, people now
What do you say?
Without an education
You might as well be dead
JAMES BROWN
"Don't Be a Dropout"
Though men be endowed with beauty and youth, and be born in a noble family, yet without education, they are like a palas tree, which is void of any sweet smell.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Educator's Book of Quotes
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
ARTHUR LYNCH
Moods of Life