Inspirational Quotes on Education

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

“The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character. That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.”

“It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.”

“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”

“The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.”

“Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.”

“Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.”

“When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.”

“God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters.”

“Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection.”

“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”

“I've graduated from three universities, and I can tell you that some of the dumbest people on earth are hiding out there.”

“Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.”

“When one considers our nation's educational foundations -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian -- it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.”