Education

Where are gone those older spirits in education who knew and taught boldly that school is an apprenticeship, and a hard one, for a life harder yet? and that prayer is necessary not to escape burdens but for strength the better to carry them? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The education of the twentieth century will develop the heart as well as the intellect. – G. Stanley Hall (1846–1924)

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think â€” rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert G. Ingersoll

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G.M. Trevelyan

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. – Abraham Flexner

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. – Ezra Pound, “The Instructor: II,” Chapter Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934

Education should be exercise; it has become massage. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious â€” just dead wrong. – R.Baker

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, “The True Function and Value of Criticism; With Some Remarks on the

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. – Cornelius Vanderbilt

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G.K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost