Quotes about education
education careers moral
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. George Santayana
education people judgement
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
education punishment doubt
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell
education past thinking
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. G. M. Trevelyan
education reading teaching
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
education math unique
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy
education doers
The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche
education children war
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
education philosophy teaching
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
education school diversity
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. John Ruskin
education justice hunger-and-thirst
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
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Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth is but a term of childhood, in which he is to be educated for the manhood of a brighter world. As the child must be educated for manhood upon earth, so the man must be educated upon earth, for heaven; and finally that where the foundation is not laid in time, the superstructure can not rise for eternity. John Quincy Adams
education men ignorant
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.
education war men
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. John Milton
education echoes states
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas
education hurt unique
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity. Norman Cousins
education world today
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. Miguel de Cervantes
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson
education school clouds
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
education freedom war
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
education people liberty
Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
education men people
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
education country lying
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.
educational men light
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.
educational europe branches
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.
educational lasts firsts
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
educational ideas mind
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
educational
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
education equal-treatment people
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
education teacher people
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
education ignorance racism
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.