Quotes on Education

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.