EDUCATION

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1. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. There can be but a single goal of education, and that—education to courage.—ALFRED ADLER
   

3. Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.—BRONSON ALCOTT
   

4. The whole object of education is, or should be, to develop mind. The mind should be a thing that works. It should be able to pass judgment on events as they arise, make decisions.—SHERWOOD ANDERSON
   

5. They who educate children well, are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.—ARISTOTLE
   

6. All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.—ARISTOTLE
   

7. It is by education, I learn to do by choice, what other men do by the constraint of fear.—ARISTOTLE
   

8. Unless an individual is free to obtain the fullest education with which his society can provide him, he is being injured by' society.—W. H. AUDEN, I Believe
   

9. The standards of a genuinely liberal education, as they have been understood, more or less from the time of Aristotle, are being progressively undermined by the utilitarians and the sentimentalists.—IRVING BABBITT
   

10. Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.—Bible, Acts 22:3
    

11. But to go to school in a summer morn,
    Oh, it drives all joy away!
    Under a cruel eye outworn,
    The little ones spend the day—
    In sighing and dismay.—BLAKE, The Schoolboy
    

12. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.—LORD BROUGHAM
    

13. Education is the only cure for certain diseases the modern world has engendered, but if you don't find the disease, the remedy is superfluous.—JOHN BUCHAN
    

14. Education is the cheap defense of nations.—BURKE
    

15. An educated man stands, as it were in the midst of a boundless arsenal and magazine, filled with all the weapons and engines which man's skill has been able to devise from the earliest time.—CARLYLE, Burns
    

16. Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

17. Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him—if he is a walking university.—E. H. CHAPIN
    

18. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?—CICERO, De Divinatione
    

19. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.—DIOGENES
    

20. On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated; "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Aristotle
    

21. It was a saying of his [Aristotle] that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Aristotle
    

22. The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.—ISAAC D' ISRAELI, Literary Character
    

23. By education most have been misled.—DRYDEN, The Hind & the Panther
    

24. The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.—TRYON EDWARDS
    

25. That which we are we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.—EMERSON
    

26. The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.—EMERSON
    

27. Education begins with life. Before we are aware the foundations of characters are laid, and subsequent teaching avails but little to remove or alter them.—FRANKLIN
    

28. States should spend money and effort on this great all-underlying matter of spiritual education as they have hitherto spent them on beating and destroying each other.—GALSWORTHY
    

29. Education is a thing of which only the few are capable; teach as you will only a small percentage will profit by your most zealous energy.—GEORGE GISSING, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
    

30. A college education shows a man how little other people know.—T. C. HALIBURTON
    

31. Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.—HAZLITT, The Round Table
    

32. Education is the ability to meet life's situations.—DR. JOHN C. HIBBEN
    

33. Periods of intellectual renaissance are periods when education is about something, when it has a topical relation to social needs and to social aspirations which dominate the lives of men and women.—LANCELOT HOGBEN,
    Dangerous Thoughts
    

34. Education in its widest sense includes everything that exerts a formative influence, and causes a young person to be, at a given point, what he is.—MARK HOPKINS
    

35. There is no science to education. You may send your boy to Phillips Exeter for two years and Harvard for four, and when he comes back you may have to support him the rest of his life.—ELBERT HUBBARD
    

36. Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with these laws.—THOMAS H. HUXLEY, A Liberal Education
    

37. He that has found a way to keep a child's spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to restrain him from many things that are uneasy to him, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.—LOCKE
    

38. It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense
    compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.—LOWELL, New England Two Centuries Ago
    

39. 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.—HORACE MANN
    

40. Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.—HORACE MANN
    

41. Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.—HORACE MANN
    

42. Finally, education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.—HORACE MANN
    

43. Public instruction should be the first object of government.—NAPOLEON
    

44. If I have any inclination above all others it is for the truthful education of the youth of America. The fundamentalist movement had not previously given me a moment's thought or concern, but when it began thus to interfere with the teachings in our schools and colleges, to deceive the youth of our country, our boys and girls, our young men and women in the formative stage, on whose right thinking and right conduct the whole future of America depends, I was thoroughly aroused.—HENRY F. OSBORN, Evolution and Religion in Education
    

45. Education—a debt due from present to future generations.—GEORGE PEABODY
    

46. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
    

47. Educational institutions will become, more and more purely, institutions for educating people; and, as they become this, they will cease to be seats of scientific inquiry save on the very lowest level.—WALTER B. PITKIN
    

48. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.—PLATO, The Republic
    

49. 'Tis education forms the common mind:
    Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

50. It is only the ignorant who despise education.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

51. Educational relations make the strongest tie.—CECIL RHODES
    

52. Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.—RUSKIN
    

53. The more purely intellectual aim of education should be the endeavor to make us see and imagine the world in an objective manner as far as possible as it really is in itself, and not merely through the distorting medium of personal desires.—BERTRAND RUSSELL
    

54. Manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education.—ERNEST T. SETON
    

55. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.—HERBERT SPENCER
    

56. Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.—MME. DE STALL, Corinne

57. Every school-boy knows it.—JEREMY TAYLOR, On the Real Presence
    

58. It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.—MARY WEBB, Precious Bane
    

59. Men are born but citizens are made. A child takes to itself what is brought to it. It accepts example, usage, traditions and general ideas. All the forms of its social reactions and most of its emotional interpretations are provided by its education.—H. G. WELLS, The Shape of Things to Come
    

60. Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,— all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.—R. C. WINTHROP
    

61. The more a man is educated, the more it is necessary, for the welfare of the State, to instruct him how to make a proper use of his talents. Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous usages if it is not properly handled.—WU TING-FANG