Quotes About Education

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

All men desire to know

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

All men by nature desire knowledge...

Now each man can give a good judgment upon matters with which he is acquainted, and is in such cases a good judge. In each particular case, therefore, he judges best who has been taught the matter in question, and on all matters he whose education has been universal.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

A man who has been well trained will not in any case look for more accuracy than the nature of the matter allows; for to expect exact demonstration from a rhetorician is as absurd as to accept from a mathematician a statement only probable.

The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of creatures; and through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.