Education Quotes

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Now I will have less distraction.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

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 technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.