Education Quotes

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

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #‎ education .

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Only the educated are free.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.