Quotations About / On: EDUCATION

  • 1.
    My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.
    (Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. III, p. 619, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (August 5, 1880).)
    More quotations from: Rutherford Birchard Hayes, education, school
  • 2.
    Every day care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.
    (James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century), U.S. child development specialist, author. Teaching the Child Under Six, ch. 1 (1968).)
    More quotations from: James L Hymes, Jr., education, school
  • 3.
    Girls, get an education and escape slavery.
    (Rena Rietveld Verduin, U.S. farm woman. As quoted in The Female Experience, ch. 45, by Gerda Lerner (1977). Said in a 1907 debate organized by the Lansing Country Culture Club. She was reacting to the typical hard life of a farm woman.)
    More quotations from: Rena Rietveld Verduin, education
  • 4.
    Labor is God's education.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, January 25, 1841, before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, Massachusetts. "Man the Reformer," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).)
    More quotations from: Ralph Waldo Emerson, education, god
  • 5.
    Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
    (Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Pro Flacco, fragment.)
    More quotations from: Marcus Tullius Cicero, education
  • 6.
    What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.
    (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), German playwright, philosopher. The Education of the Human Race, sec. 1-2, 18th Century Philosophy, p. 225, ed. Lewis W. Beck, Free Press, New York (1966).)
    More quotations from: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, education
  • 7.
    I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.
    (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), African American suffragist and rights advocate. As quoted in Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life, part 3, by Bert James Loewenberg and Ruth Bogin (1976). Harper said this in 1893. Born free, she was advocating education for African American children. It had been a crime to teach slaves to read.)
    More quotations from: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, education, heart, children
  • 8.
    If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it? With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education. I most sincerely wish ... that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.
    (Abigail Adams (1744-1818), U.S. matriarch; wife and mother of United States President. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution, letter dated August 14, 1776 (1875). In a letter to her husband John Adams, who was away at war. She was reacting to his letter of August 3, in which he lamented his "countrymen's" lack of "art and address" and "knowledge of the world.")
    More quotations from: Abigail Adams, education, children, women
  • 9.
    I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.
    (William Howard Taft (1857-1930), U.S. president. Address to the State Institute and College at Columbus, Mississippi, October 12, 1910. Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1910, 1: 396-97, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1910). A female institution.)
    More quotations from: William Howard Taft, education, work, women
  • 10.
    It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.
    (Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), U.S. author. "Notes on English and American Style," The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976).)
    More quotations from: Raymond Chandler, education, school, leave, people

Read Quotations On / About:

[Hata Bildir]