11 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Education

Samuel Johnson quotes on education

42. Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

50. There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

51. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

64. ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.

86. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

96. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

141. A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

143. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

144. There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

178. Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

205. The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.