Quotes about Education
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Beware of the person of one book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whether, besides Philosophy, any Further Doctrine Is Required? Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical science. Therefore any other knowledge besides philosophical science is superfluous.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I fear the man of a single book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Each year I have grown and learned new things.
— Jeremy Camp
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Historia magistra vitae est
— Cicero
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
— Cicero
If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
— Cicero
They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.
— Clayton M. Christensen