Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 13
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.
Edward Gibbon
Broad of Church and broad of mind,
Broad before and broad behind,
A keen ecclesiologist,
A rather dirty Wykehamist.
John Betjeman
There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Samuel Johnson
Every schoolmaster after the age of 49 is inclined to flatulence, is apt to swallow frequently, and to puff.
Harold Nicolson
Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut – at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus – and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it. The British postgraduate student is a lonely forlorn soul…for whom nothing has been real since the Big Push.
David Lodge
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
They go forth into it with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds, and undeveloped hearts.
E. M. Forster
Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors…must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too ‘up to date’. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.
Robert Hutchison
A maiden at college, named Breeze,
Weighed down by B.A.s and M.D.s
Collapsed from the strain.
Said her doctor, ‘It’s plain
You are killing yourself by degrees!’
Anonymous
I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader’s eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.
Kingsley Amis
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
John Adams
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tyron Edwards
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Helen Keller
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What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. … What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
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The education of a child begins 25 years before the child is born.
Anonymous
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