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Education: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— BACON — Essays. Of Studies.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.— HOSEA BALLOU — MS. Sermons.
But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day- In sighing and dismay.— WM. BLAKE — The Schoolboy. St. 2.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, -a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.— LORD BROUGHAM — Speech. Jan. 29, 1828.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.— COWPER — Progress of Error. L. 410.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.— ISAAC DISRAELI — Literary Character. Ch. VI.
By education most have been misled.— DRYDEN — Hind and Panther. Pt. III. Pt. III. L. 389.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.— GASCOIGNE
Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.— GAY — The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and the Farmer. To a Mother. L.9.
Of course everybody likes and respects selfmade men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.— O. W. HOLMES — The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. L. 1.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us. Winter— MRS. JAMESON — Education.
Studies and Summer Rambles. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1772. But it was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.— LOWELL — Among my Books. New
England Two Centuries Ago. Finally, education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.— HORACE MANN — Lectures and Reports
on Education. Lecture I. Enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.— MILTON — Tract on Education.
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.— WENDELL PHILLIPS — Speeches. Idols.
'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 149.
S. God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 13.
He can write and read and cast accompt. O monstrous! We took him setting of boys' copies. Here's a villain!— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 92.
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.— MADAME DE STAËL — Corinne. Bk. IX. Ch. I.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education.— ROBERT C. WINTHROP — Yorktown
Oration. Oct. 19, 1881.