School Sayings And Quotes

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“Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”
– Harry S Truman

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

“School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.”
– Henry Louis Mencken

“Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents”
– Henry Louis Mencken

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality”
– Henry Louis Mencken

“There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action”
– Herbert Spencer

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is”
– Isaac Asimov

“Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school”
– Ivan Illich

“Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.”
– J.P Richter

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.”
– James A. Garfield

“Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.”
– James Arthur Baldwin

“Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord”
– Jay Sekulow

“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers”
– Jean Piaget

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around”
– Jim Rohn

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn

“The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools”
– John Dewey

“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
– John Dewey

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education…. From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.”
– John Ruskin

“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”
– John Ruskin

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
– John W Gardner

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.”
– John W. Gardner

“Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education; because that would mean we had stopped growing.”
– Julia H. Gulliver

“After a feller gits famous it don’t take long fer some one t’ bob up that used t’ set by him at school”
– Kin Hubbard

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
– Kofi Annan

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
– Lenny Bruce

“The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”
– Lesley Conger

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