Quotes about Education

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The Two Kingdoms view maintains that the kingdom came in Jesus and will come again in Jesus' return, but that it is confined to the church in the period between Jesus' two advents. That view goes against the passages cited above. Clearly, the kingdom has in fact deeply affected human culture over the centuries: in the sciences, the arts, the treatment of orphans and widows, education, and every other area of importance to human beings.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.