Education Quotes

• "There have been periods when the country heard with dismay that "the soldier was abroad." That is not the case now. Let the soldier be abroad; in the present age he can do nothing. There is another person abroad--a less important person in the eyes of some, an insignificant person, whose labors have tended to produce this state of things. The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust more to him, armed with his primer, than I do to the soldier in full military array, for upholding and extending the liberties of his country."
  By: Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)
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• "Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array."
  By: Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux), in a speech
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• "Every educated person is a future enemy."
  By: Martin Bormann
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• "But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day-- In sighing and dismay."
  By: William Blake, The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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• "Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education."
  By: Tony Blair, in a speech at the Labour Party Conference
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• "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day."
  By: Bible, Acts (ch. XXII, v. 3)
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• "Man is an animal, formidable both from his passions and his reason; his passions often urging him to great evils, and his reason furnishing means to achieve them. To train this animal, and make him amenable to order; to inure him to a sense of justice and virtue; to withhold him from ill courses by fear, and encourage him in his duty by hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for society, hath been the aim of civil and religious institutions; and, in all times, the endeavor of good and wise men. The aptest method for attaining this end hath been always judged a proper education."
  By: Bishop George Berkeley
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• "We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."
  By: James Beattie
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• "The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence than our faculties demand instruction."
  By: Isaac Barrow
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• "Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character."
  By: Hosea Ballou, Sermons, a manuscript
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• "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
  By: James Baldwin
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• "For were it not better for a man in fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner?"
  By: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
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• "Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
  By: Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Studies
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