"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Education, Books, Chance, First, May

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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Truth, Courage, Learning

"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Education, School, Creativity, Irony, Discipline

"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Reform, Change, Weather

"Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Education, Rules, Teaching, Children, Morality

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Education, Wisdom, Learning, Inspirational, Mind

"Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books."

Steven Magee, British Author

Education, Reading, Research, Future

"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Education, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Inspirational

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Education, Conceit

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, Society, Soul

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Education, People, Danger

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Identity

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

"Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn."

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

"Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books."

"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

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"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."