A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana
If a teacher is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~ John Updike
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Chinese proverb
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Henry David Thoreau
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency -- and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency -- and a vice. ~ Mark Twain
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. ~ Anatole France
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Much learning does not teach understanding. ~ Heraclitus
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. ~ H L Mencken
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ~ Will Rogers
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ~ Plato
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. ~ William Hazlitt
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ~ Emerson
It is easier for a teacher to command than to teach. ~ John Locke
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. ~ Sir Walter Scott
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~ G M. Trevelyan
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