Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power.
A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Though men be endowed with beauty and youth, and be born in a noble family, yet without education, they are like a palas tree, which is void of any sweet smell.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
In the march of universal improvement, education must lead the van.
Education is in no small measure preparing the way for the intellectual life and pointing to it. Those who cannot enter in at its gates are doomed, in Leonardo da Vinci's words, to "possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world." For them life must be short, however many its years, and barren, however plentiful its acts. Their ears are deaf to the call of the indwelling Reason, and their eyes are blind to all the meaning and the values of human experience.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, lecture at Columbia University, Mar. 4, 1908
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
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.
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.
JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON, The Field of Philosophy
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
JOHN ADAMS, Thoughts on Government
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.
|
