Henry Peter Brougham Quotes

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

Instill respect for teachers.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

Schooling is so important.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Education is so important.

I'm all for education.

My wife and I believe that there's nothing we do together as a community that's more important than education.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

A library implies an act of faith.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.