Emma Willard Quotes

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Anyone who has passed though 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.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

In my family, education was always important.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.