“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“They know enough who know how to learn.”
“Education is not received. It is achieved.”
“Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.”
“We learn well and fast when we experience the consequences of what we do—and don’t do.”
“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”
“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.”
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.”
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!”
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he knows.”
“Only the educated are free.”
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, / Loses the past and is dead for the future.”
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
“America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.”
“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.”
“A College Degree is a Social Certificate, not a proof of competence.”
“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.”
“For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
“The education of a man is never complete until he dies.”
“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
“He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.”
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.”
“Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.”
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
“School is an invaluable adjunct to the home, but it is a wretched substitute for it.”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.”
“The teacher’s art consists of this: To turn the child’s attention from trivial details and to guide his thoughts continually towards relations of importance which he will one day need to know, that he may judge rightly of good and evil in society.”
“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
“To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship… is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.”
“The well-meaning people who talk about education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.”
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
“The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teach explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”