Quotes about Education
training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Beware of the person of one book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whether, besides Philosophy, any Further Doctrine Is Required? Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical science. Therefore any other knowledge besides philosophical science is superfluous.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I fear the man of a single book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Each year I have grown and learned new things.
— Jeremy Camp
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Historia magistra vitae est
— Cicero
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
— Cicero