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Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. - George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant) A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. - George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. - George Santayana He can write and read and cast account. O monstrous! We took him setting of boys' copies. Here's a villain. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Weaver & Cade at IV, ii) In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro at I, i) God hath blessed you with a good name. To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, iii) My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. - George Bernard Shaw What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. - Percy Bysshe Shelley As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. - Sydney Smith An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. - Socrates They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage. - Socrates Education has for its object the formation of character. - Herbert Spencer The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein), Corinne (bk. IX, ch. I) Education is all paint: it does not alter the nature of the wood that is under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it is sometimes so long before you get to see under the varnish! - Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents. - Sir Richard Steele Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. - John Sterling The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. - John Sterling Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows. - Jonathan Swift, Century Life It is only the ignorant who despises education. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Displaying page 9 of 11 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11
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