School Sayings And Quotes

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“Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
– Robert Frost

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll

“By nature all people are alike, but by education become different”
– Robert Green Ingersoll

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert M Hutchins

“Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.”
– Robin Cook

“We learn not in the school, but in life”
– Seneca

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”
– Socrates

“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.”
– Susan B Anthony

“Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man”
– Swami Vivekananda

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Education, like the mass of our age’s inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it”
– The Simple Life

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.”
– Tom Brokaw

“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community – these are the most vital things that education must try to produce”
– Virginia Gildersleeve

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
– Will Durant

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
– Will Durant

“The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things–the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.”
– Will Durant

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
– Will Durant

“The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.”
– Will Rogers

“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats

“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.”
– William Ellery Channing

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it”
– William Haley

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
– William James

“My education was interrupted only by my schooling”
– Winston Churchill

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