“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”
More from Horace Mann on Education
“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”
Others on Education
Malala Yousafzai
7 quotes“Education is neither eastern nor western.”
Henry Adams
5 quotes“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
John Dewey
5 quotes“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
Plutarch
4 quotes“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures”
FDR
3 quotes“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Anatole France
3 quotes“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying i...”
Ezra Pound
3 quotes“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”
B.F. Skinner
3 quotes“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
Malcolm X
3 quotes“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
Leo Buscaglia
3 quotes“Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.”
Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.”