Education Quotes

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.