Edmund Burke Quotes on Education
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In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study [as in America]...This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources...They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.