Thoughts—Education	
QUICK CHECK:
1. Hubbard:  a) What can you do?  b) What can’t 	
you do?	
2. Disraeli:  Upon what does the fate of this 
 country depend?
3. Everett:  What is a better safeguard of liberty 	
than a standing army?	
4. Kennedy:  How fast can our progress as a 
 nation be?
5. Chinese saying:  What happens if you:  a) Give 	
a man a fish?  b) Teach a man to fish?  c) Would 
you rather be given a fish or taught to fish?  	
6. Brougham: a) Education makes people easy to 	
what?  b) Impossible to what?	
 b) Give a reason for your answer.
7. Franklin:  What is a shame?
8. Steinbeck: What happens after you learn to 	
handle ideas?	
9. Hugo: Who closes a prison?
10. King: What is the goal of true education?
11. Stiefvater: What can you do as you learn who 	
you are?	
12. a) Which quote do you like?  b) Why?	
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make 
him think.    —Elbert Hubbard
Upon the education of the people of this country, the 
fate of this country depends.  —Benjamin Disraeli
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a 
standing army.    —Edward Everett
The best education in the world is that gotten by 
struggling to get a living. —Wendell Phillips
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as 
the living from the dead. —Aristotle
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our 
progress in education. —John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Only the educated are free.  —Epictetus
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.  
    —Chinese saying
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to 
drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.   
    —Henry Brougham
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being 
unwilling to learn.   —Benjamin Franklin
Education is a social process . . . Education is 
growth . . . Education is not a preparation for life; 
Education is life itself. —John Dewey
Ideas are like rabbits.  You get a couple and learn 
how to handle them — and soon you have a dozen.
    —John Steinbeck
Training is everything.  The peach was once a bitter 
almond; the cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage 
with a college education. —Mark Twain	
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
   —Victor Hugo
Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of true 
education.       —Martin Luther King, Jr. 
As you learn who you are, you can better surround 
yourself with friends who make you a better person.
     —Maggie Stiefvater
The difference between 
education and 
experience:  Education 
is when you read the 
fine print.  Experience 
is what you get when 
you don't. 
 —Pete Seeger
Thoughts & Quotes