Educational Quotes And Sayings

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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” 
– Henry Brooks Adams

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
– Henry Ford

“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study.  Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”
– Henry L. Doherty

“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” 
– Henry Peter Broughan

“Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.”
– Horace Mann

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” 
– J. Bronowski

“A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.” 
– James B. Stockdale

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn

“Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.”
– Jimmy Connors

“You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.”
– John Adams

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
– John Ciardi

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” 
– John Cotton Dana

“She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.”
– John Mason Brown

“All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.”
– John Ruskin

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
– John W. Gardner

“I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”
– John Milton

“The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.”
– John Updike

“The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can’t.”
– Jonathan Alter

“There’s money, and then there’s class. The two are often separated.”
– Kate Jacobs

“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
– Larry Hagman

“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”
– Laura Bush

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.”
– Lauro Cavazos

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book.  You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”
– Lesley Conger

“Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.”
– Lois Bey

“Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning. You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning.”
– Louis Nizer

“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

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