"There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning."
Read quote
6 likes
Education quotes
Education
3.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Education
Browse quotes that often appear alongside education — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Education quotes (page 48 of 160)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away."
Read quote
6 likes
"My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens."
Read quote
6 likes
"One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination."
Read quote
6 likes
"It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled."
Read quote
6 likes
"Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy."
Read quote
6 likes
"If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate."
Read quote
6 likes
"We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error."
Read quote
6 likes
"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."
Read quote
6 likes
"A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake."
Read quote
6 likes
"But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many."
Read quote
6 likes
"Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant."
Read quote
6 likes
"In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means."
Read quote
6 likes
"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
Read quote
6 likes
"Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows."
Read quote
6 likes
"To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure."
Read quote
6 likes
"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete."
Read quote
6 likes
"Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart."
Read quote
6 likes
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
Read quote
6 likes
"When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context."
Read quote
6 likes