Valuable Quotes on Education

Whoa. What a quote.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

I think the above quote may be pointing to the fact that the education of a youth is SO critical, that it deserves massive amounts of attention and preparation. I'm not sure. It could be hyperbole, or not.

"The entire object of TRUE EDUCATION is to make people ...

not merely do the right things, but enjoy them;  (Authority:Goodness)
not merely industrious, but to love industry; (Action:Resolve)
not merely learned, but to love knowledge;  (Action:Relate/Learn)
not merely pure, but to love purity;  (Authority:Goodness)
not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice." (Authority:Goodness)

—John Ruskin

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Additional ones for consideration.

List of his quotes at Brainy Quote

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A word is not a crystal - transparent and unchanging (unchanged);

it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content

according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Words are merely labels that we use to signify both tremendous and petty concepts and ideas.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run,
and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.


The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.