Quotations About / On: EDUCATION

  • 21.
    H.F. Jones's mother—I said of her once that to have known her is an illiberal education.
    (Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 27, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).)
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  • 22.
    An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe."
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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  • 23.
    The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
    (Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 29 (1969).)
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  • 24.
    Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
    (John Hersey (1914-1993), U.S. author. The Child Buyer, Section: Monday, October 28, 1960.)
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  • 25.
    What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
    (Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist. Spectator (London, Nov. 6, 1711), no. 215, The Spectator, ed. D.F. Bond (1965).)
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  • 26.
    A good education is another name for happiness.
    (Ann Plato (1820-?), U.S. teacher and author. As quoted in Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life, part 2, by Bert James Loewenberg and Ruth Bogin (1976). Plato, a free African American who was a schoolmistress in Hartford, Connecticut, said this in 1841.)
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  • 27.
    No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
    (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Crito, 45 D....)
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  • 28.
    Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching
    school, and learning to be mad, in a dream—what is this
    life?
    (Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Kaddish (l. 17). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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  • 29.
    Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
    (George F. Will (b. 1941), U.S. political columnist. Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does, ch. 2 (1984).)
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  • 30.
    The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
    (Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689-1762), British society figure, letter writer. letter, Jan. 28, 1753, to her daughter Lady Bute. Selected Letters, ed. Robert Halsband (1970). Lady Montagu advised Lady Bute on bringing up her own daughter "to make her happy in a virgin state.")
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