Education Quotes

• "Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow And blackberry vines are running."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier, In School Days
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• "Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows."
  By: William Whitehead, The Roman Father (prologue)
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• "In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."
  By: Alfred North Whitehead
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• "Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long."
  By: Alfred North Whitehead
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• "No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light."
  By: Archbishop Richard Whately
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• "Any who says (with Mandeville in his treatise against charity schools), "If a horse knew as much as a man, I should not like to be his rider," ought to add, "If a man knew as little as a horse, I should not like to trust him to ride.""
  By: Archbishop Richard Whately
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• "The greatest of all warriors that went to the siege of Troy had not the pre-eminence because Nature had given him strength and he carried the largest bow, because self-discipline had taught him how to bend it."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "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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