49 Quotes About Education

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

It is so important that our churches, our Christian schools and we, as individuals, do not allow non-Christian influences to influence our beliefs.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Men are more inclined to ask curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction.

The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.

I've graduated from three universities, and I can tell you that some of the dumbest people on earth are hiding out there.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

He has seen but little of life who does not discern everywhere the effect of early education on men's opinions and habits of thinking. Children bring out of the nursery that which displays itself throughout their lives.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection.

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered Exultation is rooted in God-centered Education.

When one considers our nation's educational foundations -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian -- it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character. That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

Aversion from reproof is not wise. It is a mark of a little mind. A great man can afford to lose; a little, insignificant fellow is afraid of being snuffed out.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Old foxes want no tutors.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.