Education Quotes

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

~ Harper Lee

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

~ Swami Vivekananda

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.

~ Santosh Kalwar

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

~ William Glasser

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

~ Charles Dickens

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

~ Audre Lorde

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Those who trust us educate us.

~ George Eliot

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

~ Booker T. Washington

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

~ Ray Bradbury

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

~ Ivan Illich

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

~ Bell Hooks

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

~ Shannon Hale

Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means to draw out. What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.

~ David Orr

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

~ Norton Juster

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

~ Robert Maynard Hutchins

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.

~ B.f. Skinner

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

~ Jane Austen

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

~ Zhuangzi

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

~ Rich Mullins

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

~ Bill Watterson

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

~ Muriel Spark

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

~ A.s. Neill

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

~ Abraham Lincoln

As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, a children's book, or the latest book that just about everyone is reading. No one chastises us for our choice. No one says, 'That's too short for you to read.' No one says, 'That's too easy for you, put it back.' No one says 'You couldn't read that if you tried -- it's much too difficult.'Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.

~ Mem Fox

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

~ Frank Herbert

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

~ Howard W. Hunter

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free

~ Jefferson Said

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

~ Albert Einstein

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

~ Simon Baron-Cohen

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

~ Zoe Weil

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

~ Ambeth R. Ocampo