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Martin Luther Quotes about Education

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I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

Martin Luther
Education, Children, Heart

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Martin Luther
Education, Book, Enough

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Martin Luther
Education, Children, Study

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Martin Luther
Education, Learning, School

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther
Education, People, Principles

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther
Education, Book, Action

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther
Education, Long, People

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Martin Luther
Education, Attention, Done
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther
Education, Book, Good Book
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Martin Luther
Education, Kindness, Book

It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

Martin Luther
Education, Men, Quality

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

Martin Luther
Education, Cheer, Fun

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

Martin Luther
Education, Mean, People

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Martin Luther
Education, Son, Giving
Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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