I carry my satchel still. [ Michael Angelo ]
Just education forms the man. [ Gay ]
We are taught words, not ideas. [ Beaconsfield ]
Love is the greatest of educators. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
By education most have been misled. [ Dryden ]
Education is only second to nature. [ Horace Bushnell ]
To form a brave man, educate boldly. [ Richter ]
Education should be as broad as man. [ Emerson ]
There is no education like adversity. [ Beaconsfield ]
A boy is better unborn than untaught. [ Gascoigne ]
Hew the block off, and get out the man. [ Pope ]
Education is the apprenticeship of life. [ Willmott ]
Education is the cheap defense of nations. [ Burke ]
To pour the fresh instruction over the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast. [ Thomson ]
Teach the children! It is painting in fresco. [ Emerson ]
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot. [ Pope ]
Duty is the inner soul, the life of education. [ Michelet ]
'Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. [ Alexander Pope ]
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. [ Emerson ]
Education polishes good nature, and corrects bad ones. [ Proverb ]
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. [ Horace Mann ]
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.. [ Proverb ]
The self-educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
The fate of empires depends upon the education of youth. [ Aristotle ]
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. [ Proverb ]
Commonsense is in spite of, not the result of, education. [ Victor Hugo ]
Man forms and educates the world, but woman educates man. [ Julie Burow ]
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. [ Emerson ]
No inheritance can supply the want of a virtuous education. [ Thomas Wilson ]
Public instruction should be the first object of government. [ Napoleon ]
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
A college education shows a man how little other people know. [ Haliburton ]
The world is only saved by the breath of the school children. [ Talmud ]
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. [ Aristotle ]
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. [ Wordsworth ]
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. [ Colton ]
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence. [ Carlyle ]
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the mind. [ Proverb ]
Learning by study must be won 'Twas never entailed from sire to son. [ Gay ]
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. [ George Sand ]
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. [ Willmott ]
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. [ Horace Mann ]
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. [ Lady Montagu ]
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. [ Horace Mann ]
To breed up the son to commonsense is evermore the parent's least expense. [ Dryden ]
The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. [ John Ruskin ]
She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world. [ William Shakespeare ]
Education is only like good culture, - it changes the size, but not the sort. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. [ Mme. de Stael ]
The world is packed with good women. To know them is a middle-class education. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. [ Burnap ]
Habits formed in early life and early education press upon us as we grow older. [ U. S. Grant ]
To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education. [ Jean Paul ]
Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. [ Wendell Phillips ]
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. [ Holmes ]
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot. [ Thomson ]
The aim of education should be rather to teach us how to think, than what to think. [ James Beattie ]
Each excellent thing, once well learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
The first, as indeed the last, nobility of education is in the rule over our thoughts. [ John Ruskin ]
Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. [ Bacon ]
Man must either make provision of sense to understand, or of a halter to hang himself. [ Antisthenes ]
Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away. [ Saadi ]
I have hope that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed. [ Leibnitz ]
In this country every one gets a mouthful of education, but scarcely any one a full meal. [ Theodore Parker ]
The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. [ Gibbon ]
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and education must finish him. [ Locke ]
Education begins the gentleman, but leading, good company, and reflection must finish him. [ Locke ]
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. [ Channing ]
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. [ Aime-Martin ]
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education. [ Harriet Martineau ]
A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world. [ Burke ]
I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned. [ Niebuhr ]
The true prosperity and greatness of a nation is to be found in the elevation and education of its laborers. [ U. S. Grant ]
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. [ Earl of Sterling ]
Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. [ Plato ]
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. [ Horace Mann ]
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. [ Hazlitt ]
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all. [ Froude ]
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtues and corrects all the vices. [ Clarendon ]
On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. [ Daniel Webster ]
The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the necessaries of life is a busy idleness. [ Fuller ]
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. [ Lowell ]
The worst education that teaches self-denial is better than the best that teaches every thing else, and not that. [ John Sterling ]
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world. [ G. W. Curtis ]
The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. [ John Sterling ]
Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. [ Chapin ]
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. [ Shelley ]
A faithful mother can do more in one quarter in the education of her child, than a schoolmaster can accomplish in years. [ J. W. Barker ]
Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light. [ Whately ]
In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women. [ John Ruskin ]
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. [ Milton ]
God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. [ William Shakespeare ]
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. [ Mme. de Stael ]
There is only one cure for public distress, and that is public education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just. [ John Ruskin ]
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. [ Horace Mann ]
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. [ Horace Mann ]
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two give us most trouble. [ Goethe ]
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. [ Emerson ]
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. [ Madame Necker ]
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]
Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former. [ Horace Mann ]
Nature gives healthy children much; how much! Wise education is a wise unfolding of this; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Fortunately, in England at any rate, Education produces no effect whatsoever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. [ Edward Everett ]
Education, indeed, has made the fondness for fine things next to natural; the corals and bells teach infants on the breasts to be delighted with sound and glitter. [ H. Brooke ]
I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]
There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. [ Alexander von Humboldt ]
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader. [ Washington Irving ]
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]
My own firm conviction is that no education can make a writer. The heart must be hot behind the pen. Out of the abundance of life and its manifold experiences comes the power to touch life. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Noble blood! bah! What blood is more noble or so pure as that of the lion? And yet he is only a brute. It is merit, education and virtue, not blood, that lift men above the level of the brutes. [ Michael le Faucheur ]
Were a whole nation to start upon a new career of education, with mature faculties and minds free from prepossession or prejudice, how much would be quickly abandoned that is now most stubbornly cherished! [ Chatfield ]
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Lord Bacon ]
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]
Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]
The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, - such are the objects of true education. [ J. T. Headley ]
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. [ Garfield ]
The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. [ Henry Giles ]
The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]
To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails. [ Humboldt ]
This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. [ Cicero ]
Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like?
- and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]