Education Quotes

• "Licking a cub into shape. [Lat., Lambendo paulatim figurant.]"
  By: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus), Natural History (VIII, 36)
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• "The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man."
  By: Wendell Phillips, Speeches--Idols
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• "The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant."
  By: Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
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• "The victory of the Prussians over the Austrians was a victory of the Prussian over the Austrian schoolmaster."
  By: Oskar Ferdinand Peschel, Ausland (no. 19)
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• "In this country every one gets a mouthful of education, but scarcely any one a full meal."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristia (4, 6, 1)
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• "To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct."
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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• "Love is the greatest of educators."
  By: Frances Sargent Osgood
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• "I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned."
  By: Reinhold Niebuhr
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• "Public instruction should be the first object of government."
  By: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
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• "A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
  By: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
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• "A good education is generally considered as reflecting no small credit on its possessor; but in the majority of cases is reflects credit on the wise solicitude of his parents or guardians, rather than on himself."
  By: James Cotter Morison
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• "If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them--you first make thieves and then punish them."
  By: Sir Thomas More
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