Education Quote by George Smith

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than…

— John Locke

“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming…

— Thomas More

“He walked there, reading in the evening and heard the cries of the boys' lines at their play, young cries in the quiet evening.…

— James Joyce

“The Lord and His Church have always encouraged education to increase our ability to serve Him and our Heavenly Father’s chlidren. For each of…

— Henry B. Eyring

“The education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and draweth down the grace and favour of the All-Merciful,…

— Anonymous

“Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere…

— Mark Twain

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy. His purpose in life was to travel, and, after two years of walking the…

— Paulo Coelho

“It was to be no more who should rule, but who should serve; no more who should look down upon his fellows from the…

— George MacDonald

“Schooling as it presently exists, like science before and religion before that, is necessary to the continuation of our culture and to the spawning…

— Derrick Jensen

“Because, sir, teaching young gentlemen has a dismal effect upon the soul.It exemplifies the badness of established, artificial authority. The pedagogue has almost absolute…

— Patrick O'Brian