Education Quotes

• "The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself."
  By: Edward Gibbon
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• "Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man."
  By: John Gay, The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and the Farmer--To a Mother (l. 9)
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• "Just education forms the man."
  By: John Gay
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• "The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves."
  By: James Abram Garfield
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• "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained."
  By: James Abram Garfield
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• "My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other."
  By: James Abram Garfield, tradition has it that he used the phrase at a New York Alumni Dinner
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• "The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the necessaries of life is a busy idleness."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all."
  By: James Anthony Froude
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• "The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness."
  By: Francois de Salignac Fenelon
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• "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."
  By: Edward Everett
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• "An intelligent, class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious; never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite."
  By: Edward Everett
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• "What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "The secret of education lies is respecting the pupil."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Teach the children! It is painting in fresco."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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