Educating The Young Quotes

• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Oxford, Able

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

  Aristotle

  Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

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• One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Children, Parent, Special

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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• By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Destiny, Young Generation

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.800, Adolf Hitler

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• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Education, Truth, Mean

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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