Quotes about Education

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.