Famous Quotations About Education

Here are some famous quotations about education. We have quotations made by Adam Smith plus others.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A teacher is one who, in his youth, admired teachers.

All our schools are finishing schools; they finish what has never been begun.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters.

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

The university brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

A Random Quotation

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