Socrates
“Wisdom begins with wonder.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
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Aristotle
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
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Albert Einstein
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
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Author Unknown
“All learning begins with the simple phrase, ‘I don't know.’”
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Proverbs 4:13
“Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.”
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Aristotle
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
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Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
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Plato
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
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George Santayana
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
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Aristotle
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
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Nicholas Murray Butler
“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”
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Author Unknown
“Learn something about everything you can and everything about something.”
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Will Durant
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
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Albert Einstein
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
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Confucius
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The secret of education is respecting the pupil.”
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Albert Einstein
“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
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Author Unknown
“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
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Thomas Carruthers
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
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Cicero
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
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Socrates
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
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Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
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Author Unknown
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
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Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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Publilius Syrus
"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."
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Jim Rohn
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
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Sir Claus Moser
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
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Malcolm Forbes
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
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Heinrich Heine
“Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.”
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Peter Drucker
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
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Edward Everett
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
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Daniel J. Boorstin
“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”
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William Butler Yeats
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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Author Unknown
"What we are not up on we tend to be down on."
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Author Unknown
“If you think education is expensive, try not having one.”
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Vernon Law
“Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.”
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Thomas Scott
"A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family."
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Abraham Lincoln
"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."
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Heber J. Grant
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
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George F. Richards
"If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure."
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John Cotton Dana
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
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Henry Brooks Adams
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
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Walter Lippmann
“When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.”–
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Walker Percy
“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
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Ariel and Will Durant
“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
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Thomas Berger
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
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Anatole France
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
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Leonardo da Vinci
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
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Edward Everett
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
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Sydney J. Harris
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
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Nelson Mandela
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
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Theodore Roosevelt
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
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Woody Allen
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
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Roger Lewin
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
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Plato
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
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Albert Einstein
“Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a Sun-dial in the shade?”
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Author Unknown
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
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Will Rogers
“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”
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Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
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Arthur Aufderheide
“All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.”
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Rudyard Kipling
"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."
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Alec Bourne
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
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Carl R. Rogers
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.”
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John Stuart Mill
“The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.”
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Albert Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
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Carl Rogers
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
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Alec Bourne
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
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Aldous Huxley
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
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2 Peter 1:5
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge.”
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Mohandas Gandhi
“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”
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Albert Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.”
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John F. Kennedy
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
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Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities.”
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Mark Twain
“The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.”
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J. Willard Marriott
“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”
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Lily Tomlin
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
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Robert M. Hutchins
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
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Author Unknown
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
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Michel de Montaigne
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
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Robert Green Ingersoll
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
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David O. McKay
"True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life."
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George Reynolds
"Education does not change the nature of men; it simply develops and polishes that which is in them.."
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George Albert Smith
"One of the first and most responsible duties that rest upon us is the education, training and cultivation of the minds of our children."
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George Q. Cannon
"Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre."
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Brigham Young
"See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.."
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Sidney Smith
“The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will.. not destroy...life more dignified and useful.."
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Joseph Young
"If you can learn how to learn, you have acquired something that will make of you a real teacher."
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Aristotle
"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
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Og Mandino
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
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Proverbs 1:5
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels…”
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Author Unknown
“An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”
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Proverbs 1:7
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
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Theodore Roosevelt
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
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Bill Cosby
“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.”
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John F. Kennedy
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
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Robert Frost
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
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Carol Tomlinson
“Excellence in education is when we do everything that we can to make sure they become everything that they can.”
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Piet Hein
“The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.”
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John Dewey
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
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Proverbs 15:14
“The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.”
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Plato
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
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Jim Rohn
“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.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
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G.K. Chesterton
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
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Mandell Creighton
“The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”
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Paul E. Gray
“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”
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G. M. Trevelyan
“Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
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Ambrose Bierce
"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
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Matthew 7:8
“For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
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Author Unknown
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
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R. Verdi
"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know."
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Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
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John W. Gardner
“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.”
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Anatole France
“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.”
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Anne Sullivan
“My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed.”
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George Washington
“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
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Russell Baker
“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.”
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Sir William Haley
"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
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Bill Beattie
“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.”
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Howard Gardner
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”
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William Haley
“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.”
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Joseph Smith
"A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.."
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Thomas L. Friedman
“My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
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Leighann Lord
“Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.”
