Education Quotes

• "Bonaparte asked Mme. de Stael in what manner he could best promote the happiness of France. Her reply is full of political wisdom. She said, "Instruct the mothers of the French people.""
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "Promote as an object of primary importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it should be enlightened."
  By: George Washington
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• "In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
  By: Thorstein Veblen
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• "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; the cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
  By: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) ch. 5
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• "The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth."
  By: Anthony Trollope
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• "To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast."
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
  By: Sir William Temple
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• "Every school-boy knows it."
  By: Jeremy Taylor, On the real Presence (sec. V, 1), phrase attributed to Macaulay from his frequent use of it
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• "The world is only saved by the breath of the school children."
  By: The Talmud
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• "It is only the ignorant who despises education."
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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• "Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Century Life
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• "The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that."
  By: John Sterling
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• "Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist."
  By: John Sterling
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• "The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes."
  By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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• "Education is all paint: it does not alter the nature of the wood that is under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it is sometimes so long before you get to see under the varnish!"
  By: Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope
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