Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Education is so important.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

Education is equally important in one's life.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

I learn every day, and I know that I will never stop learning.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.