School Sayings And Quotes

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“Not to advance is to drop back.”
– Chinese Saying

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
– Daniel J Boorstin

“When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, ‘As much as the living are to the dead.”‘
– Diogenes Laetius

“The best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself.”
– Edward Gibbon

“Education is a vaccine for violence.”
– Edward James Olmos

“A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it”
– Emile Capouya

“You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.”
– Emo Philips

“Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.”
– Erich Fromm

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves”
– Euripides

“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.”
– Evelyn Waugh

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
– Ezra Pound

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
– Francis Bacon Sr

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
– Frank Zappa

“The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize”
– Franklin D Roosevelt

“Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.”
– Frederick W.Robertson

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”
– G K Chesterton

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
– G K Chesterton

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

“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
– G K Chesterton

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
– G. K. Chesterson

“Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?”
– Gene Fowler

“Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.”
– George Bush

“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”
– George Macaulay Trevelyan

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught”
– George Savile

“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others”
– Grayson Kirk

“Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.”
– Greek Proverb

“Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff”
– Harold Nicolson

“In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I was smitten at once and still am.”
– Harry S Truman

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