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Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Literature and Dogma (preface)
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Studies
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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.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: Sermons, a manuscript
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. XXII, v. 3)
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Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.
Author: Tony Blair
Source: in a speech at the Labour Party Conference
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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.
Author: William Blake
Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Author: William Blake
Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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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.
Author: Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)
Source: in a speech
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, mem. I, 1)
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"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ch. X)
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (II, 10)
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To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: Heretics
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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Divinatione (II, 2)
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Progress of Error (l. 410)
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Author: Laertius Diogenes
Source: according to Stobaeus
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Character (ch. VI)
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By education most have been misled.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.
Author: James Abram Garfield
Source: tradition has it that he used the phrase at a New York Alumni Dinner
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Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
Author: John Gay
Source: The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and the Farmer--To a Mother (l. 9)
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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.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (l. 1)
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.
Author: Mrs. Anna Jameson
Source: Education--Winter Studies and Summer Rambles
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Author: Andy McIntyre
Source: None
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: None
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: None
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The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Author: Bishop Mandell Creighton
Source: None
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Author: Peter F. Drucker
Source: None
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Author: Edward Everett
Source: None
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Author: Abraham Flexner
Source: None
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
Source: None
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Author: Erich Fromm
Source: None
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Author: Robert Frost
Source: None
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Author: John W. Gardner
Source: None
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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Author: Emma Goldman
Source: None
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Author: William Haley
Source: None
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Author: Sydney J. Harris
Source: None
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: None
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: None
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
Source: None
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Author: Grayson Kirk
Source: None
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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Author: Roger Lewin
Source: None
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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Author: Brander Matthews
Source: None
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Author: Richard Livingstone
Source: None
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Author: Al McGuire
Source: None
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