Educational Quotes

Educational Quote of the day

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

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

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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 student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

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

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.