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Education Quotes
Education quotes, at times, may give us a glimpse of insight into education. Whatever, they are always good to read at least once! Education quotes by author-names starting with A African proverb: It takes a village to raise a child. Albert Einstein: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein: Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Aldous Huxley: Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Alec Bourne: It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Anatole France: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Ariel and Will Durant: Education is the transmission of civilization. Aristotle: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Author Unknown: A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. Author Unknown: A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. Education quotes by author-names starting with B Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Bertrand Russell: I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. Bill Beattie: The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Education quotes by author-names starting with E Epictetus: It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Education quotes by author-names starting with F Finley Peter Dunne: Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. Education quotes by author-names starting with G George Peabody: Education: a debt due from present to future generations. George Santayana: Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Gloria Steinem: The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Goethe: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Education quotes by author-names starting with H Heinrich Heine: Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Henry B. Adams: Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry B. Adams: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Ward Beecher: 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. Herbert Spencer: The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Education quotes by author-names starting with J James Baldwin: Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. Jimmy Connors: Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. John Burroughs: Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. John Cotton Dana: Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Dewey: Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey: Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey: I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms, which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience. John Dewey: The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society. Education quotes by author-names starting with M Malcolm Forbes: Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Maria Mitchell: Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Mary Pettibone Poole: To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. Education quotes by author-names starting with N Nelson Mandela: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nicholas Murray Butler: An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Niels Bohr: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Education quotes by author-names starting with P Paulo Freire: Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. Perelman: Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. Education quotes by author-names starting with R Rabbinical saying: Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Rachel Carson: If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. Robert Frost: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. Robert Fulghum: All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten. Robert Green Ingersoll: It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Roger Lewin: Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Russell Baker: An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Education quotes by author-names starting with S Saint Francis de Sales: You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Samuel Gompers: What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. Education quotes by author-names starting with T Thomas Carruthers: A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Education quotes by author-names starting with W Will Durant: Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Wilson Mizner: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Winston Churchill: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Wu Ting-Fang: Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled. These are the education quotes that appealed me quite a bit - in a way; they are my personal choice from amongst a host of them. 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