Education Quotes

• "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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• "Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks."
  By: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein), Corinne (bk. IX, ch. I)
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• "The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous."
  By: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
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• "Education has for its object the formation of character."
  By: Herbert Spencer
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• "They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage."
  By: Socrates
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