Quotes About Education

Mistakes are their own instructors

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

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.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.