Quotes about Education

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

rhetoric was to be surveyed from the standpoint of philosophy.

It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life