Quotes about education
education writing men
What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well? Henry David Thoreau
education land wish
When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
education school elements
The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
education college thinking
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
education splits woods
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
education hate men
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
education mark advantage
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. Malcolm Muggeridge
education mind united-states
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
education first-day-of-school educator
Education is our passport to the future. Malcolm X
education children teaching
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
education mean college
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
education reading long
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
education morning world
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
education school college
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. Mahatma Gandhi
education country progress
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
education giving people
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
education and-love contemplation
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
education soul mind
A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
education country people
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
education children school
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
education spiritual mean
By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
education men occupation
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
education literacy ends
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
education literacy
Literacy in itself is no education.
education art children
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
education understanding honest
Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
educational real character
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
education wise knowledge
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott
education men differences
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. John Adams
education school squares
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.
education mother children
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.
education writing earthquakes
A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.
education money memorable
But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.