Quotes on Great Schools

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)