Education Quotes

• "Begin the education of the heart, not with the cultivation of noble propensities, but with the cutting away of those that are evil. When once the noxious herbs are withered and rooted out, then the more noble plants, strong in themselves, will shoot upwards. The virtuous heart, like the body, becomes strong and healthy more by labor than nourishment."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind."
  By: Samuel Richardson
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• "A free school For th' education of young gentlemen, To study how to drink and take tobacco."
  By: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-glass (act III. sc. 1)
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• "Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain."
  By: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
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• "Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's."
  By: Winthrop Mackworth Praed, School and Schoolfellows
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• "It depends on education (that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands) to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery."
  By: Jane Porter
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• "Then take him to develop, if you can And hew the bock off, and get out the man."
  By: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (IV, 269)
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• "So watchful Bruin forms with plastic care, Each growing lump and brings it to a bear."
  By: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (I, 101)
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• "'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
  By: Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 149)
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• "Hew the block off, and get out the man."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect."
  By: Plutarch
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• "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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