Education
Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
—Plato(427-347 B.C. Greek philosopher)
As what sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
—Joseph Addison(1672-1719 British poet and essayist)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
—Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
Education has for its object the formation of character.
—Herbert Spencer(1820-1903 British philosopher)
The object of educator is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
—Robert Hutchins(1899-1977 American educational philosopher)
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can’t make him think.
—Finley Peter Dunne(1867-1936 American humorist and writer)
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats(1865-1939 Irish poet)
Men learn while they teach.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca(ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Roman philosopher and statesman)
And gladly would learn, and gladly teach.
—Geoffrey Chaucer(ca. 1340-1400 British poet)
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
—Edward Gibbon(1737-1794 British historian)
One father is more than a hundred school masters.
—George Herbert(1593-1633 British priest and poet)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry Adams(1838-1918 American historian and novelist)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to slave.
—Henry Peter Brougham(1778-1868 British statesman)
Only the educated are free.
—Epictetus (55-135 Greek Stoic philosopher)
Only a nation of educated people could remain free.
—Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826 the 3rd President of the United States)