Quotes about Education

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

To learn is to receive, and then it is to give, and then it is to give again.

The Indian himself must be the answer—he must learn the Scriptures, be taught, and in turn teach his own people. To this end Pete and Jim reopened the missionary school at Shandia that Dr. Tidmarsh had been forced to close. Here in a one-room schoolhouse the youngsters of the community were taught to read and write so that ultimately they could read the Scriptures for themselves.