"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Everett, Edward | Education | 2 bookmarks

"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

Hazlitt, William | Education | 1 bookmarks

"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus | Education | 2 bookmarks

"Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!"

Herzen, Alexander | Education | 1 bookmarks

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon | Education | 3 bookmarks

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell | Education | 2 bookmarks

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

Houston, Sam | Education | 1 bookmarks

"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert | Education | 5 bookmarks

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor | Education | 3 bookmarks

"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."

Hutchins, Robert M. | Education | 1 bookmarks