Education Quotes

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

~ Ankala V Subbarao

Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall. Some will stick, and some will fall off. But if you keep throwing the mud on the wall, eventually the whole wall will be covered in mud. I think writing is very much the same. You have to keep at it. Some will stick, and some will fall away, but you keep writing, and eventually, you've impacted thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people with your vision.

~ Michele E. Gwynn

Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

~ Gregory C. Carlson

I don’t argue with fools, I educate.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

~ John Dewey

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts, they get that way by respecting them.

~ Tom Heehler

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

~ Neil Postman

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

~ John Lubbock

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

~ Tim Fargo

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

~ Alfie Kohn

It's never either-or, never enjoyment versus advancement, so long as you conceive of advancement in terms of learning rather than climbing to the next rung of the professional ladder. You are getting ahead if you learn, even if you wind up staying on the same rung.

~ Chris Hadfield

Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.

~ Jay Cross

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

~ Frederick Douglass

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

~ Raph Koster

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'.

~ Elizabeth F. Barkley

When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.

~ Alex Zar

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

~ Montesquieu

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

~ Tim Fargo

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

~ Tim Fargo

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

~ Abraham Flexner

A wise person alway learn from every thing at any given morment.

~ Hamzat Haruna Ribah

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the only place where speeches are given. Some hundred thousand teachers teach every day. They all speak 45 minutes, more times a day. They have been doing this for years. Every teacher knows exactly when the time will be over and that by then his speech will need to come to a natural end. It is this tension that determines the success of a lesson. It is a sign of the times that we forget these daily achievements in education. A million students daily attend several ‘live’ lectures and this in secondary education alone. These are high ratings!

~ Robbert Dijkgraaf

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

~ Tim Fargo

Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do.

~ V. R. Roadifer

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to enter at any point without prejudice. This is why you shall never hear or see a television program begin with the caution that if the viewer has not seen the previous programs, this one will be meaningless. Television is a nongraded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away with the idea of sequence and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

~ Neil Postman

A good teacher does something more than teaching, he makes you start learning.

~ Raheel Farooq

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

~ Diane Ravitch

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

~ Andrew Dickson White

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.

~ Novalis

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms… And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.

~ William Cory

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

~ Truth Devour

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

~ Frank Herbert

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence.

~ Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you’ll learn all about when you’re older and don’t care anymore.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru