Web Hosting by Netfirms | Free Domain Names by Netfirms

  2. A college education shows a man how little other people know.

  3. A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

  4. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

  5. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.

  6. As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

  7. As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.

  8. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.

  9. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.

 10. Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind, To breathe the enlivening Spirit, and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing breast.

 11. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

 12. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

 13. Education does not consist merely in studying languages and learning a number of facts. It is something very different from, and higher than, mere instruction. Instruction shores up for future use, but education sows seed which will bear fruit, some thirty, sixty, some one hundred fold.

 14. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

 15. Education is leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

 16. Education is the cheap defence of nations.

 17. Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

 18. Education is the transmission of civilization.

 19. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

 20. Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

 21. Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

 22. From one learn all.

 23. He might have been a very clever man by nature, but he had laid so many books on his head that his brain could not move.

 24. He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

 25. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is on the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the hearts of others, he neglects not his own.

 26. He that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

 27. He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

 28. He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.

 29. He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. - Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

 30. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

 31. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.

 32. I perceive all the professors of exoteric knowledge to be full of learning with no application - Day and night wasting their lives, pursuing discussion, chatter, and empty disputation.

 33. If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

 34. If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease. How can a man at ease acquire knowledge, And how can an earnest student enjoy ease?

 35. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

 36. Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

 37. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

 38. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

 39. It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

 40. It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unpleasant.

 41. I've studied new Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine And even, alas, Theology From end to end with labour keen; And here, poor fool; with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

 42. Knowledge increases in proportion to its use - that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

 43. Learn that the advantage lieth not in possessing good things, but in the knowing the use of them.

 44. Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

 45. Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

 46. Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

 47. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

 48. Learning is weightless... Treasure you always carry easily.

 49. Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

 50. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

 51. Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

 52. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.

 53. Lessons are not given, they are taken.

 54. Let the great book of the world be your principle study.

 55. Life teaches us to be less severe with ourselves and others.

 56. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.

 57. Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason there are so many senseless scholars in the world.

 58. Much study is a weariness of the flesh.

 59. Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

 60. Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

 61. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

 62. One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

 63. Only the educated are free.

 64. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

 65. Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

 66. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

 67. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

 68. Since learned men have appeared, good men have become rare.

 69. Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

 70. Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

 71. Studies teach not their own use; that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.

 72. Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

 73. Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

 74. Teachers open the door... You enter by yourself.

 75. Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

 76. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

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

 78. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.

 79. The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

 80. The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

 81. The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

 82. The great teacher who skillfully waits to be questioned may be compared to a bell when it is struck. Struck with a small hammer, it gives a small sound; struck with a great one, it gives a great sound. But let it be struck leisurely and properly, and it gives out all the sound of which it is capable.

 83. The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use, In all these he was much and deeply read.

 84. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

 85. The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

 86. The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

 87. The noblest employment of the mind of man, is the study of the works of his Creator.

 88. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

 89. The rules aimed at in the Great College were: the prevention of evil before it was manifested; the timeliness of instruction when it was required; the suitability of the lessons in adaptation to circumstances; and the good influence of example to all those concerned. From these four things the Great Teaching flourishes.

 90. The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

 91. The study of oneself must go side by side with the study of the fundamental laws of the universe. The laws are the same every where and on all planes. But the very same laws manifesting themselves in different worlds, that is, under different conditions, produce different phenomena.

 92. The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

 93. The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.

 94. The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

 95. The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

 96. 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.

 97. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

 98. There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

 99. There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

100. There is an unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

101. There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

102. There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in.

103. There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

104. Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

105. To be proud of learning, is the greatest ignorance.

106. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

107. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

108. To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

109. Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.

110. We have need of very little learning to have a good mind.

111. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

112. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

113. Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

114. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.