Education Quotes by John Stuart Mill

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

— John Stuart Mill

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

— John Stuart Mill

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

— John Stuart Mill

Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

— John Stuart Mill

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

— John Stuart Mill

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he…

— John Stuart Mill

Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points…

— John Stuart Mill

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes;…

— John Stuart Mill

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding…

— John Stuart Mill

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in…

— John Stuart Mill

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from…

— John Stuart Mill

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true…

— John Stuart Mill

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not…

— John Stuart Mill

A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government…

— John Stuart Mill

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in…

— John Stuart Mill

“To see the futurity of the species has always been the privilege of the intellectual elite, or of those who have learnt…

— John Stuart Mill

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his…

— John Stuart Mill

“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as…

— John Stuart Mill