Education Quotes
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Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.
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Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want, call us and we'll show you how to live without it."
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
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Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."
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Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
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Look out for the boy who has to plunge into work direct from the common school and who begins by sweeping out the office. He is probably the dark horse you had better watch.
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Men are every day saying and doing, from the power of education, habit, and imitation, what has no root whatever in their serious convictions.
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Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady only, but to be a man, a woman.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.
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