education Quotes

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I cannot live without books.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.