6 Edmund Burke Quotes on Education

Edmund Burke quotes on education

72. 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.

106. Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

108. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

149. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

151. 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.

162. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.