education Quotes

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

An index is a great leveller.