25 Quotes of Education from Pete Seeger

Do you know the difference between education

Different Authors
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world.
-Mortimer Adler
In the case of good books, the point is not how
many of them you can get through, but rather
how many can get through to you.
T. S. Eliot
The purpose of a Christian education would not John Milton Gregory, The Seven Laws of
be merely to make men and women pious
Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at
this end alone would become only
obscurantist. A Christian education must
primarily teach people to be able to think in
Christian categories.
and experience? Education is when you read
the fine print; experience is what you get when
you don't.
John Know {Reformer}, The First Blast of
the Trumpet
“To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority,
dominion, or empire above any realm, nation,
or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely [an
insult] to God, a thing most contrary to his
revealed will and approved ordinance, and
finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all
equity and justice.”
Teaching, p.13
“The first object of teaching, then, is to
stimulate in the pupil the love of learning, and
to form in him the habits and ideals of
independent study.”

John Gardner Thomas Gataker {Puritan}, A Good Wife

One of the reasons why mature people are apt God’s Gift
to learn less than young people is that they are
“Let parents learn here what to aim at
willing to risk less. Learning is a risky business,
and they do not like failure. in the education of their childre.not to
study only how to provide portions for
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education which stops with efficiency may
the.but labour to train them up in true
prove the greatest menace to society. We wisdom and discretion.”
must remember that intelligence is not
enough. Intelligence plus character,that is the
goal of true education. Douglas Wilson, Repairing the Ruins, p.18
“Education is the process of learning to serve
2 Timothy 2:15 (Bible) one’s God, and to fight all idols.”
"Be diligent to present yourself approved to
God, a worker who does not need to be George Herbert
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." “One father is more than a hundred
schoolmasters.”
America's Foundation pp. 75-76.
No Man may put off the Law of God. The Way Douglas Wilson, Federal Husband
of God is no ill Way. My Joy is in God all the “A refusal to educate your daughters is a
Day. A bad Man is a Foe to God. refusal to educate your grandsons – and that
grants dominion to God-haters.”
G.K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the Samuel Willard {Puritan}, The Mourners
best out of education.... Without a gentle Cordial Against Excessive Sorrow
contempt for education no man's education is “The Word of God and the rule of religion teach
complete. us, not to destroy, but to improve every faculty
that is in us…to the glory of God who gave
Sydney J. Harris them to us.”
The whole purpose of education is to turn
mirrors into windows. R.C. Sproul Jr., When You Rise Up – A
Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling
Robert G. Ingersoll “Thinking that education is something different
It is a thousand times better to have common from discipling our children is a sure sign that
sense without education than to have we have been ‘educated’ by the state.
education without common sense. Education is discipleship.”
 Jeremiah Burroughs
“There is little hope for children who are
educated wickedly. If the dye have been in the
wool, it is hard to get it out of the cloth.”

R.L. Dabney, On Secular Education

“Education is the nurture and development of
the whole man for his proper end.”

R.C. Sproul Jr., When You Rise Up – A

Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling
“In short, we need to be careful not to buy into
the unisex nonsense of the world around us.
We ought not be ashamed to have a boy
curriculum and a girl curriculum, because we
are raising boys and girls. Or better still, we
are raising men and women. Our goal is to
raise godly seed, which in turn means raising
godly men and godly women.”

1 Thessalonians 5:11 -Bible

Therefore encourage one another and build up
one another, just as you also are doing.

C.S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is,
seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Richard Baxter
Experience will teach, that men are not made
learned or wise without hard study, and
unwearied labour and experience.