Education Quotes
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
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The more purely intellectual aim of education should be the endeavor to make us see and imagine the world in an objective manner as far as possible as it really is in itself, and not merely through the distorting medium of personal desires.
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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The poorest education that teaches self-control, is better than the best that neglects it.
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The problem of education is two fold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
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The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
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The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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The standards of a genuinely liberal education, as they have been understood, more or less from the time of Aristotle, are being progressively undermined by the utilitarians and the sentimentalists.
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The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, and at book-learning which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
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The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. - To reverse this arrangement, is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
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The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents.
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