Quotes About Education

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

I guess there are never enough books.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

whenever there are problems, people turn to government. Despite the central planners' long record of failure, politicians promise that this time they will "fix" health care, education, the uncertainty of old age, etc., and people believe.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

To see the futurity of the species has always been the privilege of the intellectual elite, or of those who have learnt from them; to have the feelings of that futurity has been the distinction, and usually the martyrdom, of a still rare elite. Institutions, books, education, society, all go on training human beings for the old, long after the new has come; much more when it is only coming.

The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the consideration of Rhetoric, in the large sense in which that art was conceived by the ancients; or of the still more extensive art of Education.