Education Quotes

You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.