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Education and Learning
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be
sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
Education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
The fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
It ain’t what a man don’t know what makes him a fool,
But what he does know that ain’t so.
Josh Billings (1881-1835)
It is greater work to educate a child…than to rule a state
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842
A little learning, indeed may be a dangerous thing,
But the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Federick Douglass (c. 1818-1895)
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
Or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin,
is a great equalizer of the conditions of men.
Horace Mann (1796-1859)
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do,
Never does what he can do.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Mohammad (570-632)
Learning is the best of all wealth. It is easy to carry.
Thieves cannot steal it. Neither fire nor water can destroy it,
And far from decreasing, it increases with giving.
Naladiyar-Divya
‘Tis education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclin’d
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
A little learning is a dang’rous thing.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to
Learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in your room.
Dr. Seuss (1909-1991)
A mind is a terrible thing to waste,
United Negro College Fund Slogan (c.1980)
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats (1863-1939)
Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.
Wolof West African Proverb
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