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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's read more

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

by Sydney J. Harris Found in: Education Quotes,
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

by Wendell Phillips Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

by Lord Henry Brougham Found in: Education Quotes,
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

by Mrs. Anna Jameson Found in: Education Quotes,
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

by Grayson Kirk Found in: Education Quotes,
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

by John Ruskin Found in: Education Quotes,
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

by Richard Livingstone Found in: Education Quotes,
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