Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

John Stuart Mill

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

John Stuart Mill

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

John Sergeant Wise

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

James S. Coleman

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James Russell Lowell

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Q. Wilson

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence Sterne

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

Laurence Sterne

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

Larry Hagman

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Friedrich Schiller

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Friedrich Schiller

Freedom can occur only through education.

Frederick the Great

An educated people can be easily governed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Jon Anderson

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.

Jon Anderson

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

Jon Bon Jovi

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

Johnny Carson

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Louis Nizer

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Louis Nizer

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Yeah…” – Acheron “Ash, I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Got it. You’re fourteen. I’m so proud you can count that high. It’s a testament to the modern American educational system. But I should probably point out that you’re not the only one. I’m told you go a school with a whole class of – get this – kids who are fourteen.” – Acheron

Sherwood Anderson

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Terence

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Nigel Short

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Nicolas Chamfort

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Niels Bohr

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.