Body Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

The essence of education is the education of the body.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they…

— Plato

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

— Mortimer Adler

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human…

— Maria Montessori

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

— Horace Mann

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

— Maria Montessori

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere…

— William George Jordan

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt…

— George Trumbull Ladd

“Education is the system that’s supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is…

— Kenneth Robinson