All BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotes about “Education”

“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.â€ Benjamin Franklin”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
“I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.”
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
“An education is the investment with the greatest returns.”
“Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.”
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
“What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?”
“The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.”

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