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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
MARK TWAIN, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- 'Tis education forms the common mind,
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Journal
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
TOM STOPPARD, The Invention of Love
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Educator's Book of Quotes
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jul. 4, 1924
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. TREVELYAN, English Social History
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.
BARACK OBAMA, press conference, Mar. 17, 2009
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WELLS, The Outline of History
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
JOHN MILTON, Of Education
The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
Only the educated are free.
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite.
BARACK OBAMA, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
JONATHAN ALTER, Newsweek, Jun. 15, 2009
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
College mostly makes people like bladders--just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
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