Quotations About / On: EDUCATION

  • 41.
    Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
    (Mary B. Harris (1874-1957), U.S. prison administrator. I Knew Them in Prison, ch. 34 (1936).)
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  • 42.
    The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire, ch. 4 (1995).)
  • 43.
    The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
    (Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Airing Dirty Laundry, Addison-Wesley (1993). "Reading, Writing, and Racism," Image (19 August 1990).)
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  • 44.
    For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
    (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Republic, 424 A....)
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  • 45.
    One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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  • 46.
    What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Spiritual Laws," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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  • 47.
    Education is the art of making man ethical.
    (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher. The Philosophy of Right, no. 58 (1821, trans. 1942).)
  • 48.
    Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
    (Claus, Sir Moser (b. 1922), German-born-British academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford. Daily Telegraph (London, August 21, 1990).)
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  • 49.
    Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
    (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. the assistant teacher in Elective Affinities, bk. 1, ch. 5 (1809).)
  • 50.
    The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
    (Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Idea 37 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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