Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Education

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Education, Philosophy

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

• All I have learned, I learned from books.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Education, Book

• A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Reading

• Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teaching, Mean

• That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, May, Literacy

• I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Father, Book

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

• My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Father, Years

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.617, Modern Library

• I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

• Every head should be cultivated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Should

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

• When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Writing, Age

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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