Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Ignorance, Perspective

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.

• One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Teaching, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.12, Oxford University Press

• Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Giving, Age

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Knowledge, World

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

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