Samuel Smiles Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Discipline

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

• The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

  Samuel Smiles

  Teacher, School, College

• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Real, School

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

• Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mother, School, Invention

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.75

• Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.31

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