Henry Adams Education Quotations

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.