Samuel Johnson Quotes on Education
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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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.
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Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.
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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.