Inspirational Quote by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of…

— Edward Everett

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

— Henry David Thoreau

Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If…

— Martin Luther

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

— Henry George

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

— Walter Bagehot

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

— George Bernard Shaw

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his…

— Charles Lamb

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been…

— Jill Biden

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

— H. L. Mencken

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an…

— H. L. Mencken