quotations about education
If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual -- a slow-motion erosion of America’s relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times, Oct. 8, 2009
All education has this provisional quality. In school, as well as in dreams, we learn in childhood a great deal that finds no immediate use or expression. For many years we may scarcely remember the lesson, then comes the occasion for it, and the information needed is suddenly restored.
AMELIA E. BARR
All the Days of My Life
Getting an education by itself, of course, does not guarantee financial success. There must, after all, be an increase in demand for educated labor to match the increase in supply.
FRANK LEVY
The Economic Future of American Families: Income and Wealth Trends
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
RONALD REAGAN
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
TOM STOPPARD
The Invention of Love
Better untaught than ill-taught.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
How can man be intelligent, happy, or useful, without the culture and discipline of education? It is this that smooths and polishes the roughnesses of his nature. It is this that unlocks the prison-house of his mind, and releases the captive.
HERMAN HUMPHREY
an address delivered at the Collegiate Institution in Amherst, Oct. 15, 1823
In the march of universal improvement, education must lead the van.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Tell me one more time, people now
What do you say?
Without an education
You might as well be dead
JAMES BROWN
"Don't Be a Dropout"
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
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.
LEONID ANDREYEV
The Life of Man
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
As a father should provide for the religious education of his children, so should a government for the instruction of its subjects.
CATHERINE SINCLAIR
Modern Accomplishments; The March of the Intellect
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE
Moral Essays
The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.
BARACK OBAMA
press conference, Mar. 17, 2009
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
ARTHUR LYNCH
Moods of Life
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. Every man was to be trained, not only to the use of arms, but of his wits also; and it is these which alone make the others effective weapons for the maintenance of freedom.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"New England Two Centuries Ago", The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose