Education Quotes

"The memory of past mistakes is the most effective teacher, if one survives to learn."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"The secret of freedom lies in education."

"Nothing is more important to the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue."

"Youth is the proper time to form habits."

"It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities afforded him for acquiring useful knowledge."

"Our children should be taught to love their freedom and to jealously guard their liberties."

"The measure of education is not in what you know, but in how you think."

"A society that forgets its history is doomed to repeat its mistakes with fresh ignorance."

"A man who has never questioned authority has never truly thought for himself."

"Those who remember their history are less likely to become slaves to it."

"Education is the surest path to understanding liberty's value."

"A republic stands or falls upon the foundation of popular education."

"The education of youth is the most sacred trust of any society."

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

"The greatest improvement of the human mind is the art of teaching others to teach."

"Popular government without popular information is but a prologue to a tragedy."

"Refinement and civilization come through the cultivation of letters."

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

"Ignorance and inconsistency, are the only enemies to Eloquence."

"Youth is the foundation for the future, treat it well."

"Talents for low intrigue are too much cultivated in our schools and in the world."

"Great learning requires great labor, but the reward is great satisfaction."

"Young minds are the architects of future revolutions."

"Education is the most potent weapon against the chains of ignorance."

"Education without conscience produces clever tyrants."

"The education of the conscience is what schools cannot teach."

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

"It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and also theology, as dark studies, which the professor of them makes more mysterious by going out of the common road of analysis."

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."