Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance, it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams
Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study. – John Adams
The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion. – Hermann Adler
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle
“Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life” – Aristotle
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. Francis Bacon,
Example has more followers than reason. -Christian Nestell Bovee
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education. – George H. W. Bush
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. -Thomas Carlyle
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. – Democritus
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. – G. K. Chesterton
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. -Diogenes