Quotes
"An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second."
- Thomas Jefferson
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
- Walter Cronkite
"if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I hope our successors will turn their attention to the advantages of education. I mean education on the broad scale, and not that of the petty academies."
- Thomas Jefferson
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
- Martin Luther King
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
- C.S. Lewis
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
- Plutarch
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
- Margaret Mead
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
- Aristotle
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
- Victor Hugo
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
- Abraham Lincoln
“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
- George Washington
“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
- Confucius
“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
“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
- Harry S Truman
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
- Albert Einstein
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
- James Madison
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
- E.M. Forster
“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
- Thomas Paine
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Play is the highest form of research.”
- Albert Einstein
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
- Aristotle
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
- Confucius
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- Plato
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”
- Maya Angelou
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
- B.F. Skinner
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
- Woodrow Wilson
“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”
- Abraham Lincoln
- Thomas Jefferson
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
- Walter Cronkite
"if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I hope our successors will turn their attention to the advantages of education. I mean education on the broad scale, and not that of the petty academies."
- Thomas Jefferson
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
- Martin Luther King
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
- C.S. Lewis
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
- Plutarch
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
- Margaret Mead
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
- Aristotle
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
- Victor Hugo
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
- Abraham Lincoln
“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
- George Washington
“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
- Confucius
“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
“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
- Harry S Truman
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
- Albert Einstein
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
- James Madison
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
- E.M. Forster
“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
- Thomas Paine
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Play is the highest form of research.”
- Albert Einstein
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
- Aristotle
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
- Confucius
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- Plato
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”
- Maya Angelou
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
- B.F. Skinner
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
- Woodrow Wilson
“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”
- Abraham Lincoln