Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Education

• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

• The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, School, People

• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Book

• The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Children, People

• It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Saint, Speak

• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Learning, Justice

• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, School

• There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, People, Painting

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