18th-century Educator Quotes

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Richard Allen (bishop)

Benjamin Silliman

Clement Clarke Moore

Sophia Lee

Philip Doddridge

Grace! 'tis a charming Sound,
Harmonious to my Ear!
Heav'n with the Echo shall resound,
And all the Earth shall hear.

Philip Doddridge

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

Joseph Lancaster

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

Clement Clarke Moore

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Science is a most useful thing for us all. It is one of the most useful ornaments of man. There is no dress which embellishes the body more than science does the mind.

People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can best be taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chemistry by lectures.

Benjamin Silliman

Much depends upon us for the help of our color—more than many are aware. If we are lazy and idle, the enemies of freedom plead it as a cause why we ought not to be free, and say we are better in a state of servitude, and that giving us our liberty would be an injury to us, and by such conduct we strengthen the bands of oppression and keep many in bondage who are more worthy than ourselves.

Richard Allen (bishop)