Education Quotes

• "It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "How can man be intelligent, happy, or useful, without the culture and discipline of education? It is this that unlocks the prison-house of his mind, and releases the captive."
  By: Edward Porter Humphrey
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• "The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead."
  By: Julia Ward Howe (Howel)
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• "Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought."
  By: Julia Ward Howe (Howel)
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• "Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns sour."
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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• "Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (l. 1)
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• "Man's mind stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its orginal dimensions."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• "He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness."
  By: Hermann Hesse
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• "A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if he understands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions,--whether he is grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and benevolent."
  By: Lady Hervey
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• "The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, such are the objects of true education."
  By: Joel Tyler Headley
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• "We are inclined to think that the study of the classics is, on the whole, advantageous to public morals, by inspiring an elegance of sentiments and an elevation of soul which we should in vain seek for elsewhere."
  By: Robert Hall
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• "There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to live."
  By: Edgar Albert Guest
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