Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Education
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
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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.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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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...
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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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.
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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.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Every head should be cultivated.
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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.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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