School

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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
~ Edgar W. Howe

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
~ Joseph Addison

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
~ Chinese Proverb

Education is the transmission of civilization.
~ Ariel Durant

The ink of  a scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr.
~ Islamic Saying

Knowledge is of two kinds- that which is absorbed and that which is just heard. The one that is heard does not give benefit unless it  is absorbed.
~ Islamic Saying

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life's an open book and an education helps you write success stories.
~ Joyce A. Myers

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
~ Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.
~ Aristotle

Education sows not seeds in you , but makes your seeds grow.
~ Khalil Gibran

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
~ Jacques Martin Barzun

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~ Anatole France

A sense of curiosity is Nature's original school of education.
~ Smiley Blanton

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of the nature.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
~ Plato