Education Quotes

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• I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.
• I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
• On Albert Einstein: Unlike most of his schoolmates, and schoolchildren today for that matter, the young Albert supplemented his education at school with his own self-styled curriculum at home and developed the skills he deemed important. He read and read and read. When he was hard at work, even the chaos of the family’s constant chatter could not distract the little autodidact.
• The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
• Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
• The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
• Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.
• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
• I learn the most when it’s really, really tough.
• I wrote my first novel at the age of 19. […] I didn’t get published until I was 28. There was a lot of learning from 19 to 28.
• I think if you keep working hard and following your dreams, you can accomplish everything you set your mind to.
• I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs.
• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
• With an education you all have everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfill every last one of your dreams.
• You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
• Resiliency is a skill that cannot be overlooked. In fact, it can be a skill that is the difference between surviving and thriving.
• The first lesson I’ve learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms – I mean, what works for you doesn’t necessarily work for your friend.
• All things are lessons that God would have us learn.
• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum.
• You take an educated gamble. If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you’re not doing your job.
• Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
• Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
• Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
• What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
• Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
• A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
• Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.
• Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
• The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
• Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake.
• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
• I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
• You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
• People who switch between tasks tend to lose time and have problems staying on task.
• Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
• The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
• Your best teacher is your last mistake.
• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
• You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
• You learn more when things go wrong.
• If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
• By seeking and blundering we learn.
• You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
• I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
• Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
• The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
• I’ve learned to let things roll off my back.
• Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
• You get educated by traveling.
• I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
• Peace is a necessity for education.
• What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
• I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
• I learned from watching and I learned from doing.
• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
• There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
• Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
• Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson.
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
• You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.
• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
• There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.
• At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.
• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
• You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
• Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise.
• A stumble may prevent a fall.
• Despise school and remain a fool.
• All things good to know are difficult to learn.
• An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught.
• Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
• Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
• By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.
• Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
• Teaching is the royal road to learning.
• Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
• The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.
• The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
• Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.
• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
• Love is a better teacher than duty.
• If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
• Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
• Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
• Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
• You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
• To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
• Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for.
• Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
• The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school.
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
• Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
• When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
• I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
• The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.
• Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
• Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn’t have.
• Marriage can wait, education cannot.
• When the student is ready, the master appears.
• If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly.
• A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study.
• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
• Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
• The world exists for the education of each man.
• Success is a poor teacher.
• There is no education like adversity.
• Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
• There is no failure. Only feedback.
• When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
• If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
• Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
• The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It’d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It’d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow.
• Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy.
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
• Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.
• They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.
• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
• If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
• Only the autodidacts are free.
• Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
• Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
• The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
• The highest result of education is tolerance.
• I am still learning.
• Learning never exhausts the mind.
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
• The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
• Failure is success if we learn from it.
• You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
• To teach is to learn twice.
• Responsibility educates.
• Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
• Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
• A room without books is like a body without a soul.
• They know enough who know how to learn.
• The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.
• The more you make it easy for your kids, the more your remove the struggle necessary for learning.
• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
• People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
• The giving of love is an education in itself.
• Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge.
• Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
• Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
• Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
• 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.
• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
• Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
• 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.
• Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
• Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
• A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever.
• Play is the highest form of research.
• A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system.
• A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
• Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
• There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
• Be kind to your children. Unless you raise them in a cardboard box without any stimulation or interaction, then they will probably be just fine.
• What is a home without children? Quiet.
• With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us.
• Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
• Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
• An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
• Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
• Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
• Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
• In youth we learn; in age we understand.
• It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
• When something dies is the greatest teaching.
• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
• I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
• I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
• Perhaps the most important thing is to step back and let your child stumble.
• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
• My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
• My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
• I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
• I think if you give your best as a parent, then that’s all you can do.
• The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.
• The child should live in an environment of beauty.
• My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.
• I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I’m lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
• If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.
• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
• Children need models rather than critics.
• Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
• Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.
• When I look back I can’t believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn’t have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
• I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
• I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
• Parents: let your kids fail. You’ll be doing them a favor.
• Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.
• Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
• My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
• I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
• Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so night that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.
• And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they’re studying.
• I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
• On his father: He spent a lot of time with me… teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together.
• If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise.
• Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
• Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
• I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
• Parents can lay the foundations for their teenage children to take good decisions, for example by promoting their ability to retain and elaborate information, or to balance the desire for immediate reward with the one for greater, long-term goals since a young age.
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
• A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
• Kids’ views are often just as valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
• I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
• When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
• I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
• I don’t think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
• I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
• Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
• I always felt I needed to teach to survive.
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.
• Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.
• The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
• Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children’s lives.
• Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
• Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.
• I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators.
• Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
• Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
• Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They’re building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.
• No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
• Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
• Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
• We need teachers – an hero in every classroom.
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
• A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes.
• Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
• If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
• The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his ‘mistakes’. The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.
• Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
• A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
• There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.
• So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount.
• We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
• Great teachers are earnest learners.
• A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
• A teacher is never a giver of truth – he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
• Good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.
• Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
• A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.
• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher.
• Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures – they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That’s a fine art in itself.
• Great teachers transcend ideology.
• The first education should be the harmonious development of the child’s physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children’s ‘hearts’ accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds.
• When the teacher regards each student as a unique individual and therefore not to be compared with any other, he is then not concerned with system or method. His sole concern is with ‘helping’ the student to understand the conditioning influences about him and within himself, so that he can face intelligently without fear, the complex process of living and not add more problems to the already existing mess.
• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
• One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
• You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
• A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
• There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
• The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
• A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening.
• Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
• Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
• If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
• Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
• I had teachers who I could tell didn’t want to be there. And I just couldn’t get inspired by someone who didn’t want to be there.
• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.
• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him… instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
• As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet.
• Our job is not to prepare students for something. Our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.
• Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let’s try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking.
• Humor activates our sense of wonder, which is where learning begins.
• Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom achievement.
• The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.
• The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
• Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truthx9d.
• The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
• When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.
• The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.
• A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
• Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
• The job of the teacher is to inspired, to challenge, to excite their students to want to learn. Yes, they also do explain and demonstrate and show things, but fundamentally that is beside the point. The most important thing a teacher is make every student feel like they are important, to make them feel accountable for doing the work of learning.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
• I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.
• I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.
• Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.
• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
• All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
• What I’ve come to know is that in life, it’s not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
• The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
• If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
• You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready.
• The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
• All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
• I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
• You only stop learning when you quit.
• One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
• There is no single way to educate.
• Children just need the time, the space, and the permission to be kids.
• We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.
• A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
• You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
• My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are, accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will become a white cloud.
• Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate – what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders – they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one’s being, and not going on any track of becoming – which is unending.
• On questioning everything: It would infuriate my parents that I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something, because I asked them why and then I consider whether that response made sense given everything else I know.
• I think people can choose to be not ordinary. They can choose to not necessarily conform to the conventions that were taught to them by their parents. So yes, I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
• Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
• The truth is when I went to graduate school I would’ve said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
• Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
• The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best.
• The middle years should be so busy, so demanding, so active, so adventurous that adolescents should barely have time for introspection.
• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
• Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
• What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
• The key thing to remember about me is that I’m still a student. I’m still in boot camp.
• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
• Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
• The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
• Learning doesn’t stop when school ends. It just starts.
• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
• I think you’re working and learning until you die.
• All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
• I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.
• We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.
• No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
• The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
• The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
• I’ve tested life and I’ve learned what works for me.
• 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.
• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
• Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
• The world itself is a great teacher, a constant guide and inspiration. That is the reason why man is surrounded and sustained by the world.
• The learning process continues until the day you die.
• The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
• Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
• I’m not a prophet. I’m not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
• Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
• Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages.
• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
• I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that’s a price worth paying.
• Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.
• There are as many approaches to unschooling as there are people, by design. A child is supported to read when ready and interested, not on another’s timetable, for example. He can and will be encouraged to pursue a wide range of interests, based on his interests, such as free play, inventing, experimenting scientifically, video gaming, role modeling through friendship, spiritual development through inquiry of self and others, athletics, learning to trust himself and others.
• You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
• The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
• More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.
• Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.
• The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.
• My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
• Those who know how to think need no teachers.
• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
• The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
• Walk into a wealthy person’s home and one of the first things you’ll see is an extensive library of books they’ve used to educate themselves on how to become more successful.
• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
• Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
• Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.
• You either write your own script or you become an actor in someone else’s.
• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
• One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read – what not to see or what not to listen to.
• Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.
• What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t a school at all.
• It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call ‘motivation’. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing.
• The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
• We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.
• If I was educated, I’d be a damn fool.
• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
• It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
• Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
• The mere imparting of information is not education.
• School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
• Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
• I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
• The home is the chief school of human virtues.
• Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
• In some sense our ability to open the future will depend not on how well we learn anymore but on how well we are able to unlearn.
• It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.
• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
• The most important lessons lay not in what I needed to learn, but in what I first needed to unlearn.
• Unlearning is about moving away from something ” letting go ” rather than acquiring. It’s like stripping old paint. It lays the foundation for the new layer of fresh learning to be acquired and to stick.
• It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
• Doubt grows with knowledge.
• People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
• If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.
• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education – I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
• My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
• Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
• How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
• All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
• People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
• One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
• Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
• My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
• What is reading, but silent conversation.
• Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
• The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
• I didn’t go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
• Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
• I spend a lot of time reading.
• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
• The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
• The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
• Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathize, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
• Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
• I like reading books because we learn from books, we learn about history, we learn even about future.
• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
• Mere reading of the scriptures is not enough. A person cannot understand the true significance of the scriptures if he is attached to the world.
• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
• With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
• If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
• I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
• We cannot learn men from books.
• Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
• We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
• Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library… When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
• Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching – without these a university cannot exist.
• A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
• The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed.
• One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
• The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
• There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
• A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
• Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
• A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
• I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
• The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
• Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
• I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
• I’m reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it’s like my little friend – it takes my mind off things.
• I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it’s a way to get information and find out what’s going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
• Reading serves as a good escape when you’re in the middle of doing crazy things.
• To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
• As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
• The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
• That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
• You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
• Don’t peak in high school.
• Schools are prisons for the lucky kids and prisons are schools for the unlucky kids.
• You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
• Going to school is not only learning about different subjects, it teaches you communication, it teaches you how to live a life, it teaches you about history, it teaches you about how science is working.
• It’s unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there’s this need to have things quantified and graded.
• In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
• Things changed in the fourth grade, though. One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things. I learned more that year than I think I learned in any year in school.
• Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society.
• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
• It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
• Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
• A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
• The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.
• Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
• Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
• Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.
• Much learning does not teach understanding.
• Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
• A learned man has always riches in himself.
• All learning has an emotional base.
• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
• The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
• Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
• Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
• Experience is the teacher of all things.
• It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
• Only the educated are free.
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
• The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
• It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
• The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
• Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
• Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
• My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
• If you’re going through hell, keep going.
• I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
• The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
• The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
• The wise learn many things from their enemies.
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
• Change is the end result of all true learning.
• Progress just means bad things happen faster.
• Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change.
• We need to be our own master and student. There is no Master or Savior outside of us. We need to change ourselves and learn to observe ourselves.
• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
• One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
• You can’t be a change-maker by reading a book.
• In Kenya I really saw that education can bring change, can really change our society.
• Osho does not ask anyone to change in anyway whatsoever. Transformation is a different matter and a different plane altogether. Change requires horizontal movement. Learning more and getting more experience and gaining knowledge makes one more knowledgeable. Transformation requires vertical movement. Unlearning and experiencing inner states and drowning into knowing leads to awareness.
• My dream is to bring change to my country to make it a developed country where every child is getting an education.
• Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
• All I have learned, I learned from books.
• I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
• And by the way, our teachers are underpaid.
• You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
• We want to educate people, we want to listen to folks, we want to hear good ideas from all sources.
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
• A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
• If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
• Without education, our world becomes far more narrow, isolated and uninformed.
• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
• Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
• Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
• The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
• What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul.
• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
• Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
• In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
• The solution of every problem is another problem.
• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
• Study the past if you would divine the future.
• Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
• If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
• The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
• A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
• Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
• The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
• If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.
• An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
• It seems our schools need to find the self-confidence and determination to push ahead with an idea that goes back decades. They need to show a bit of character and resiliencex9d.
• 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.
• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
• 145,000 deaths could have been prevented in 2010 if adults who did not finish high school had earned a GED or high school diploma ” comparable to the mortality rates of smoking.
• When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
• Through education we can get a broad mind.
• On education: It also teaches us justice, it also teaches us respect, it teaches us how to live together.
• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
• You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.
• Education provides us with knowledge about the world. It paves the way for a good career. It helps build character. It leads to enlightenment. It lays the foundation of a stronger nation.
• My experience and my life tell me that education has empowered me. Had I not been educated, who would I have been to express my views? Education gave me that power.
• Look at Malala. If she had not been in school, she wouldn’t have been so powerful. Her education gave her a power to raise her voice. Had she been illiterate, she would not have been able to speak with a cause, with a vision, with persistence.
• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
• Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
• Education is the vaccine for violence.
• Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
• Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
• Education is the best solution to fight many other issues as well. Through education you can fight child labor. Through education you can fight child trafficking. Through education you can also fight poverty.
• Education is the best economic policy there is.
• Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
• Education is a vital human right and plays a key role in human, social, and economic development.
• Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.
• Getting a job is not the purpose of school.
• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
• Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
• Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
• The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think ” rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
• My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
• The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
• 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.
• I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
• Education should light a fire within us to improve us and help our world.
• Education builds on itself, creating greater capacity to educate others and nurture a culture that values learning.
• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
• Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
• Education is the only solution. Education first.
• Education is light. Ignorance is darkness.
• Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.
• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
• Education is the transmission of civilization.
• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
• Education is the mother of leadership.
• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
• Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
• Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
• Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
• Education is of far greater importance than heredity in forming character.
• Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
• Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.
• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
• If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.
• I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
• Developing resilience isn’t something you do over night ” it’s the work of a lifetime.
• When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
• My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
• It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak relatively late, so much so that they consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was then, certainly not less than three.
• I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school’s curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn’t work hard enough.
• But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent – because everyday fears – like not being approved of – pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
• I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
• The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be.
• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
• Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
• I’ve learned that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
• Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
• Education is the art of making man ethical.
• Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
• It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
• I think the biggest difference is that I’ve noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children’s psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child’s natural bent.
• I was raised by extremely strict – but also extremely loving – Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents – my dad is a real character and very funny.
• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
• As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
• That best academy, a mother’s knee.
• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
• Of course, parents are the most important people in a child’s life.
• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
• We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
• When you become a parent, it’s not all about you anymore.
• Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
• But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.
• When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have.
• You know, parenting is so personal. And we’re all afraid that we didn’t quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we – what if we made a mistake?
• Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.
• Nothing is so contagious as example.
• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.