Education Quotes

We need to teach boys to respect girls.

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

I went to an all-girls’ Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.