Education Quote by Horace Mann

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

— Horace Mann

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation…

— Samuel Johnson

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

— Robert M. Hutchins

School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

“The purpose of education is turn inquisitive young minds into rule-followers”

— Department of Fear

Education has evolved into a mirror of mimicking.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“What is different today, and especially worrisome when it comes to the creation of educated citizens, is how the protective, swaddling environment of the…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius…

— Joseph Lancaster

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

— Nita Ambani

Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared…

— John Dewey

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of…

— Ted Sizer