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As I believe the English universities are the best places in the world for those who can profit by them, so I think for the idle and self-indulgent they are about the very worst.: Dr. Thomas Arnold

The force of education is so great, that we may mould the minds and manners of the young into what shape we please, and give them the impressions of such habits as shall ever after remain.: Francis Atterbury

What is the education of the generality of the world? Reading a parcel of books? No. Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world.: Edmund Burke

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.: Thomas Carlyle

Who would be at the trouble of learning, when he finds his ignorance is caressed? But when you browbeat and maul them you make them men: for though they have no natural mettle, yet if they are spurred and kicked they will mend their pace.: Jeremy Collier

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.: Owen Felltham

In some who have run up to men without education we may observe many great qualities darkened and eclipsed: their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.: Henry Felton

A very important principle in education, never to confine children long to any one occupation or place. It is totally against their nature, as indicated in all their voluntary exercises.: John Foster

Just education forms the man.: John Gay

Every man who rises above the common level receives two educations: the first from his instructors; the second, the most personal and important, from himself.: Edward Gibbon

Education and instruction are the means, the one by use, the other by precept, to make our natural faculty of reason both the better and the sooner to judge rightly between truth and error, good and evil.: Richard Hooker

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.: Ben Jonson

Could it be believed that a child should be forced to learn the rudiments of a language which he is never to use, and neglect the writing a good hand, and casting accounts?: John Locke

Virtue and talents, though allowed their due consideration, yet are not enough to procure a man a welcome wherever he comes. Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.: John Locke

In education, most time is to be bestowed on that which is of the greatest consequence in the ordinary course and occurrences of that life the young man is designed for.: John Locke

A child will learn three times as fast when he is in tune, as he will when he is dragged to his task.: John Locke

The mischiefs that come by inadvertency or ignorance are but very gently to be taken notice of.: John Locke

To make the sense of esteem or disgrace sink the deeper, and be of the more weight, either agreeable or disagreeable things should constantly accompany these different states.: John Locke

Education begins the gentleman; but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.: John Locke

The main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience.: John Milton

Now will be the right season of forming them to be able writers, when they shall be thus fraught with an universal insight into things.: John Milton

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war.: John Milton

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them,—you first make thieves and then punish them!: Sir Thomas More

Education, in the more extensive sense of the word, may comprehend every preparation that is made in our youth for the sequel of our lives.: William Paley

’Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.: Alexander Pope

A free school For th’ education of young gentlemen, To study how to drink and take tobacco.: Thomas Randolph

All nations have agreed in the necessity of a strict education which consisted in the observance of moral duties.: Jonathan Swift

You cannot but have observed what a violent run there is among … weak people against university education.: Jonathan Swift

Those of better fortune, not making learning their maintenance, take degrees with little improvement.: Jonathan Swift

Men are miserable if their education hath been so undisciplined as to leave them unfurnished of skill to spend their time; but most miserable if such misgovernment and unskilfulness make them fall into vicious company.: Jeremy Taylor

In learning anything, as little as possible should be proposed to the mind at first.: Dr. Isaac Watts

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