Henry Adams Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

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

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

• They know enough who know how to learn.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.56, Booklassic

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

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

• At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Men

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Trust, Education

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.286, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Mind, Purpose

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.78, Booklassic

• 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.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Choices, Mind

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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