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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes about Education

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher
Funny, Christian, Education
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.140

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Children, Parenting

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Culture, Size
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Men, Law
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.89

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Teaching, Men

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, War, Long

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Sweet, Reading
Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, School, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.114

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Education, School
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

Henry Ward Beecher
Education, Men, Tools
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspiring, Education, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “The Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Education, Men
"Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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