Quotes
Quotes about Education
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.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
