Quotes about Education

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

Discipline of mind and body is one of the most difficult things one has to acquire, but in the long run it is a valuable ingredient of education and a tremendous bulwark in time of trouble. Certainly, it is essential in meeting defeats and recovering from disaster. No matter how hard hit you are, you can face what has to be faced if you have learned to master your own fears.

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of creatures; and through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

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.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.