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Your Quotes for 2 September 2005 - Education

Back to School Week at Quotes of the Day has featured quotes on Schools, Books, Students, and Teachers. So why do we build schools, buy books, hire teachers, and insist that our young attend? Education. Today's quotes share some lofty ideas of what that should mean.

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.
     - Anna James

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
     - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
     - Henry Peter Brougham, 1778 - 1868

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
     - Joseph Addison, 1672 - 1719

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
     - Natalia Ginzburg, 1916 - 1991

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
     - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, 1880 - 1954

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