quotations about education
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
RONALD REAGAN
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Institutional learning facilities are traps intended to control the mind, subdue the soul, and keep you in debt until you're too old to cause trouble.... Step-by-step, inch-by-inch they will kill your ingenuity. Brick by brick, they'll enclose your mind, telling you what's right to think and what isn't.
RICK REMENDER
Black Science, No. 15, June 2015
Tell me one more time, people now
What do you say?
Without an education
You might as well be dead
JAMES BROWN
"Don't Be a Dropout"
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Better untaught than ill-taught.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
I consider that it is on instruction and education, that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.
LAJOS KOSSUTH
The Future of Nations
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
JOHN ADAMS
Thoughts on Government
Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.
SPIRO AGNEW
speech in Houston, May 22, 1970
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.
JOHN UPDIKE
The Centaur
To develop in each individual all the perfection of which he is susceptible, is the object of education.
IMMANUEL KANT
attributed, American Education: Its Principles and Elements
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD
Essays on the Higher Education
Try not to have a good time ... this is supposed to be educational.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
There's No Time for Love
True men are not supplied by school; if they are nevertheless there, they are there in spite of school.
MAX STIRNER
The False Principle of Our Education
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Nov. 6, 1711
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual -- a slow-motion erosion of America’s relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times, Oct. 8, 2009
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
Public Documents of Massachusetts, 1868
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Collected Works of G. K. CHESTERTON
As a father should provide for the religious education of his children, so should a government for the instruction of its subjects.
CATHERINE SINCLAIR
Modern Accomplishments; The March of the Intellect
As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.
LEONID ANDREYEV
The Life of Man