Education Quotes

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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.

A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

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

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.