“It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.”
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
“Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''”
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”
“Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education”
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
“The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.”
“School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.”
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
“He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.”
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”