Quotes on Education

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.

I believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime. So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.