Education Quotes

“All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.”

Samuel Johnson

“Education is the cheap defence of nations.”

Edmund Burke

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

Henry Brougham

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

Thomas Jefferson

“A people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

James Madison

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men.”

Horace Mann

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

John Dewey

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

Victor Hugo

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Henry David Thoreau

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

Mark Twain

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond.”

Mark Twain

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

Grant Allen

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

G. K. Chesterton

“Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

John Ruskin

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”

Thomas Carlyle

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

Walter Scott

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

Edward Gibbon

“Culture is to know the best that has been thought and said in the world.”

Matthew Arnold

“Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.”

John Stuart Mill

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

Herbert Spencer

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”

Thomas Henry Huxley

“From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”

Frederick Douglass

“Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau