Education Quotes

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.

You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.

Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.

Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea.

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.

Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it.

I am not simply teaching the reading I am teaching the reader.

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it?

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.