Quotes about Education

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.