The Importance of Education

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All men by nature desire to know. – Aristotle

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this, I call tragedy. – Thomas Carlyle

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much – are the three pillars of learning. – Benjamin Disraeli

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child is should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

There is no royal road to learning; no shortcut to the acquirement of any valuable art. – Anthony Trollope

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ‘tis the schoolboys who educate him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think… - James Beattie

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

An education is not how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get. – William Feather

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. – Herbert Spencer

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense – without prejudice – till you resolve. – Francis Bacon

Education then, beyond, all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance—the wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann

‘Tis education forms the common mind – Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. – Alexander Pope

Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends. – Benjamin Disraeli

Education is the cheap defense of nations. – Edmund Burke

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. – James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support. – James Madison

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. – Thomas Jefferson

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. – Aristotle

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

Education is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor, but an ornament to the rich. – Diogenes Laertius

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. – Margaret Fuller

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