Quotes About Education

1. A good education consists in giving to the body and the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. (Plato)
2. Education is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor and ornament to the rich. (Diogenes)
3. But the person educated entirely through books is half educated. (W. S. Knudsen)
4. Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, juster to their fellows, more law-abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is worth the trouble taken to furnish it. (Howard)