Education Quotes

• "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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• "The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible."
  By: Sydney Smith
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• "The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice."
  By: Lydia Huntley Sigourney
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• "As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• "God hath blessed you with a good name. To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, iii)
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• "In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro at I, i)
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• "The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education"
  By: Paul Karl Feyerabend
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• "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
  By: Aristotle
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• "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
  By: Erich Fromm
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• "You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think."
  By: Elbert Hubbard
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• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
  By: Kahlil Gibran
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• "There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
  By: Horace Mann
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