Quotes on Education

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

There is no education like adversity.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.