Quotes about Education
Christians are not born but made.
- Saint Jerome
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
- Samuel Johnson
[Of Pembroke College:] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.
- Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
- Samuel Johnson
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Samuel Johnson
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
- Bill Gates
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
- Cicero
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
- Marianne Williamson
We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.
- Marianne Williamson