quotations about education
Education is like worship. It requires the same purity of effort, dedication, and sanctity.
SUNEEL GALGOTIA
India Today, June 20, 2019
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
A wild world, figuring out the answers
I'll be in my own dance and I ...
I'm questioning my education
Rewind and what does it show?
PEARL JAM
"Education"
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
HANNAH ARENDT
"The Crisis in Education"
It is a great art in the education of youth to find out peculiar aptitudes, or, where none exist, to create inclinations which may serve as substitutes. Different minds are like different soils: some are suited only to particular cultivation; others will mature almost anything; others, again, are best adapted to a round of ordinary products; and a few are wasted, unless they are reserved for what is most choice.
THOMAS WALKER
The Original
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
THOMAS EDISON
attributed, A History of US: Reconstructing America: 1865-1890
It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to John Adams, February 15, 1778
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
address to joint session of Congress, Feb. 9, 1989
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
As farmers believe it most advantageous to sow in mist, so the first seeds of education should fall in the first and thickest most of life.
JEAN PAUL F. RICHTER
Levana; or The Doctrine 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
Education is the one investment that means more for our future because it means the most for our children. Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more: It's a matter of asking more--expecting more--of our schools, our teachers, of our kids, of our parents, and ourselves.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 1990
Michele Bachmann said that if she is elected president, she would consider eliminating the Department of Education because “the states could do a gooder job.”
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, Sep. 7, 2011
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
speech, Jul. 4, 1924
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Rolling Stone, Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. TREVELYAN
English Social History
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
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