If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. – Edgar W. Howe
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. – Erma Bombeck
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. – Bill Dodds
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. – Sydney J. Harris
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. – Margaret Laurence
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Maynard Hutchins
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. – Author Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. – Author Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. – Author Unknown
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – Ralph W. Sockman
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. – George Bernard Shaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. – Robert Gallagher
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm
