Quotes about Education

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

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.