List Of Education Quotes

Education Is Not Just About Gathering Knowledge, But More So About Learning How To Think.

Sociologists Well Understand That Chaos At Home Causes Violent Behavior, Educational Failure And Social Alienation Among Children. Yet, Many Of Us In America Stay Far, Far Away From This Topic. That In Itself Is A National Scandal. Bad Parenting Is Gravely Harming This Nation.

When Abraham Lincoln Was Murdered The One Thing That Interested Matthew Arnold Was That The Assassin Shouted In Latin As He Lept On The Stage This Convinced Matthew There Was Still Hope For America.

When You Sell A Man A Book, You Don't Sell Him 12 Ounces Of Paper And Ink And Glue - You Sell Him A Whole New Life.

The Real Purpose Of Books Is To Trap The Mind Into Doing Its Own Thinking.

Your Choice Of Armor Was Your Intellect.

You Live, You Learn, You Love, You Learn, You Cry, You Learn, You Lose, You Learn, You Bleed, You Learn, You Scream, You Learn

You Can't Unscramble Eggs.

I Was Greatly Influenced By One Of My Teachers. She Had A Zeal Not So Much For Perfection As For Steady Betterment-she Demanded Not Excellence So Much As Integrity.

This Instrument [radio] Can Teach. It Can Illuminate, Yes, And It Can Even Inspire. But It Can Do So Only To The Extent That Humans Are Determined To Use It To Those Ends. Otherwise It's Nothing But Wires And Lights In A Box.

I Want To Make Sure That All Kids Get A Good Education And Enjoy What They Learn

They Set Great Store By Their Gardens . . . Their Studie And Deligence Herein Commeth Not Only Of Pleasure, But Also Of A Certain Strife And Contention . . . Concerning The Trimming, Husbanding, And Furnishing Of Their Gardens; Everye Man Or His Owne Parte.

The Wretch Who Digs The Mine For Bread, Or Ploughs, That Others May Be Fed, Feels Less Fatigued Than That Decreed To Him Who Cannot Think Or Read.

The Education Of The Present Race Of Females Is Not Very Favorable To Domestic Happiness. For My Own Part, I Call Education, Not That Which Smothers A Woman With Accomplishments, But That Which Tends To Consolidate A Firm And Regular System Of Character; That Which Tends To Form A Friend, A Companion, And A Wife.

Education Is Not The Piling On Of Learning, Information, Data, Facts, Skills, Or Abilities--that's Training Or Instruction--but Is Rather A Making Visible What Is Hidden As A Seed... To Be Educated, A Person Doesn't Have To Know Much Or Be Informed, But He Or She Does Have To Have Been Exposed Vulnerably To The Transformative Events Of An Engaged Human Life... One Of The Greatest Problems Of Our Time Is That Many Are Schooled But Few Are Educated.

You've Got To Look For A Gap, Where Competitors In A Market Have Grown Lazy And Lost Contact With The Readers Or The Viewers.

Over The Next Two Years Unicef Will Focus On Improving Access To And The Quality Of Education To Provide Children Who Have Dropped Out Of School Or Who Work During School Hours The Opportunity To Gain A Formal Education!

Teach Love, Generosity, Good Manners And Some Of That Will Drift From The Classroom To The Home And Who Knows, The Children Will Be Educating The Parents.

I Think In Terms Of The Day's Resolutions, Not The Years'.

But, Good Gracious, You've Got To Educate Him First. You Can't Expect A Boy To Be Vicious Till He's Been To A Good School.

The Academies Of Art Are Nothing But Great Painting Factories - Those With Talent Are Fed In At One End, And They Come Out As Mechanical Painting Machines.

When Parents Are Confident That Their Children Will Live, They Have Fewer Of Them. They Invest More In Each Child's Food, Health And Education.

Restoring Prayer ... Will Scarcely At This Date Solve The Grievous Public School Problem. Public Schools Are Expensive And Massive Centers For Cultural And Ideological Brainwashing, At Which They Are Unfortunately Far More Effective Than In Teaching The 3 R's Or In Keeping Simple Order Within The Schools. Any Plan To Begin Dismantling The Public School Monstrosity Is Met With Effective Opposition By The Teachers' And Educators' Unions. Truly Radical Change Is Needed To Shift Education From Public To Unregulated Private Schooling, Religious And Secular, As Well As Home Schooling By Parents.

The Policy Of Letting The Child 'do What He Likes' Is An Insidious One, Since The Children Are Encouraged To Continue Always At Their Original Superficial Level, Without Receiving Guidance In Study. Furthermore, The 'three Rs,' The Fundamental Tools, Are Neglected As Long As Possible, With The Result That The Child's Chance To Develop His Mind Is Greatly Retarded. The Policy Of Teaching Words Via Pictures Instead Of By The Alphabet Tends To Deprive The Young Child Of The Greatest Reasoning Tool Of All.

Children Are Prepared For Democracy By Being Led To Discuss Current Events Without First Learning The Systematic Subjects (politics, Economics, History) Which Are Necessary In Order To Discuss Them. The Mole Effect Is To Substitute Slogans And Superficial Opinion For Considered Individual Thought. And The Opinion Is That Of The Lowest Common Denominator Of The Group.

The Great Advantage Of The Sort Of Education I Had Was Precisely That It Made Practically No Mark Upon Those Subjected To It.

Higher Education Is Booming In The United States; The Gross National Mind Is Mounting Along With The Gross National Product.

Mental Development Must Be Connected With Movement And Be Dependent On It. It Is Vital That Educational Theory And Practice Should Be Informed By That Idea.

An Educational Method That Shall Have Liberty As Its Basis Must Intervene To Help The Child To A Conquest Of Liberty. That Is To Say, His Training Must Be Such As Shall Help Him To Diminish As Much As Possible The Social Bonds Which Limit His Activity.

If An Educational Act Is To Be Efficacious, It Will Be Only That One Which Tends To Help Toward The Complete Unfolding Of Life. To Be Thus Helpful It Is Necessary Rigorously To Avoid The Arrest Of Spontaneous Movements And The Imposition Of Arbitrary Tasks.

The Dogmatism Of Science Has Become A New Orthodoxy, Disseminated By The Media And A State Educational System With A Thoroughness And Subtlety Far Exceeding Anything Of The Kind Achieved By The Inquisition; To The Point That To Believe Today In A Miraculous Happening Like The Virgin Birth Is To Appear A Kind Of Imbecile.

Education, The Great Mumbo Jumbo And Fraud Of The Age Purports To Equip Us To Live And Is Prescribed As A Universal Remedy For Everything From Juvenile Delinquency To Premature Senility.

The Aim Of Education Should Not Be To Teach How To Use Human Energies To Improve The Environment, For We Are Finally Beginning To Realize That The Cornerstone Of Education Is The Development Of The Human Personality, And That In This Regard Education Is Of Immediate Importance For The Salvation Of Mankind.

The Children Are Now Working As If I Did Not Exist.

When Mental Development Is Under Discussion, There Are Many Who Say, 'how Does Movement Come Into It? We Are Talking About The Mind.' And When We Think Of Intellectual Activity, We Always Imagine People Sitting Still, Motionless. But Mental Development Must Be Connected With Movement And Be Dependent On It. It Is Vital That Educational Theory And Practice Should Be Informed By That Idea.

The Greatness Of The Human Personality Begins At The Hour Of Birth. From This Almost Mystic Affirmation There Comes What May Seem A Strange Conclusion: That Education Must Start From Birth.

We Discovered That Education Is Not Something Which The Teacher Does, But That It Is A Natural Process Which Develops Spontaneously In The Human Being.

Only When The Child Is Able To Identify Its Own Center With The Center Of The Universe Does Education Really Begin.

Establishing Lasting Peace Is The Work Of Education; All Politics Can Do Is Keep Us Out Of War.

We Teachers Can Only Help The Work Going On, As Servants Wait Upon A Master.

To Stimulate Life, Leaving It Then Free To Develop, To Unfold, Herein Lies The First Task Of The Teacher.

Never Help A Child With A Task That They Feel They Can Complete Themselves.

The Greatest Triumph Of Our Educational Method Should Always Be This: To Bring About The Spontaneous Progress Of The Child.

Education Should No Longer Be Most Imparting Of Knowledge, But Must Take A New Path, Seeking The Release Of Human Potentialities.

One Test Of The Correctness Of Educational Procedure Is The Happiness Of The Child.

Whoever Touches The Life Of The Child Touches The Most Sensitive Point Of A Whole Which Has Roots In The Most Distant Past And Climbs Toward The Infinite Future.

Free The Child's Potential, And You Will Transform Him Into The World.

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.

The Best Way To Learn Is Through The Powerful Force Of Rhythm.

Everyone Is Entitled To His Own Opinion, But Not His Own Facts.

When I Learn Something New - And It Happens Every Day - I Feel A Little More At Home In This Universe, A Little More Comfortable In The Nest.

Nor Is It Enough To Toughen Up His Soul; You Must Also Toughen Up His Muscles.

And I Loathe People Who Find It Harder To Put Up With A Gown Askew Than With A Soul Askew And Who Judge A Man By His Bow, His Bearing And His Boots.

Since Philosophy Is The Art Which Teaches Us How To Live, And Since Children Need To Learn It As Much As We Do At Other Ages, Why Do We Not Instruct Them In It? .. But In Truth I Know Nothing About The Philosophy Of Education Except This: That The Greatest And The Most Important Difficulty Known To Human Learning Seems To Lie In That Area Which Treats How To Bring Up Children And How To Educate Them.

In My Youth I Studied For Ostentation; Later, A Little To Gain Wisdom; Now, For Recreation; Never For Gain.

In The Education Of Children There Is Nothing Like Alluring The Interest And Affection; Otherwise You Only Make So Many Asses Laden With Books.

Whatever I May Be, I Want To Be Elsewhere Than On Paper. My Art And My Industry Have Been Employed In Making Myself Good For Something; My Studies, In Teaching Me To Do, Not To Write. I Have Put All My Efforts Into Forming My Life. That Is My Trade And My Work.

I Have Gathered A Posy Of Other Men’s Flowers And Only The Thread That Bonds Them Is My Own.

For Among Other Things He Had Been Counseled To Bring Me To Love Knowledge And Duty By My Own Choice, Without Forcing My Will, And To Educate My Soul Entirely Through Gentleness And Freedom.

Learning Must Not Only Lodge With Us: We Must Marry Her.

'as A Man Who Knows How To Make His Education Into A Rule Of Life Not A Means Of Showing Off; Who Can Control Himself And Obey His Own Principles.' The True Mirror Of Our Discourse Is The Course Of Our Lives.

Their Pupils And Their Little Charges Are Not Nourished And Fed By What They Learn: The Learning Is Passed From Hand To Hand With Only One End In View: To Show It Off, To Put Into Our Accounts To Entertain Others With It, As Though It Were Merely Counters, Useful For Totting Up And Producing Statements, But Having No Other Use Or Currency. 'apud Alios Loqui Didicerunt, Non Ipsi Secum' [they Have Learned How To Talk With Others, Not With Themselves]

The First Lessons With Which We Should Irrigate His Mind Should Be Those Which Teach Him To Know Himself, And To Know How To Die ... And To Live.

I Seek In Books Only To Give Myself Pleasure By Honest Amusement; Or If I Study, I Seek Only The Learning That Treats Of The Knowledge Of Myself And Instructs Me In How To Die Well And Live Well.

Our Speech Has Its Weaknesses And Its Defects, Like All The Rest. Most Of The Occasions For The Troubles Of The World Are Grammatical.

Teach Him A Certain Refinement In Sorting Out And Selecting His Arguments, With An Affection For Relevance And So For Brevity. Above All Let Him Be Taught To Throw Down His Arms And Surrender To Truth As Soon As He Perceives It, Whether The Truth Is Born At His Rival's Doing Or Within Himself From Some Change In His Ideas.

Any Time And Any Place Can Be Used To Study: His Room, A Garden, Is Table, His Bed; When Alone Or In Company; Morning And Evening. His Chief Study Will Be Philosophy, That Former Of Good Judgement And Character Who Is Privileged To Be Concerned With Everything.

Socrates And Then Archesilaus Used To Make Their Pupils Speak First; They Spoke Afterwards. 'obest Plerumque Iss Discere Volunt Authoritas Eorum Qui Docent.' [for Those Who Want To Learn, The Obstacle Can Often Be The Authority Of Those Who Teach]

I Say That Male And Female Are Cast In The Same Mold; Except For Education And Habits, The Difference Is Not Great.

Science Has Made Us Gods Even Before We Are Worthy Of Being Men.

Let [children] Be Able To Do All Things, And Love To Do Only The Good.

The Message Is Clear: Libraries Matter. Their Solid Presence At The Heart Of Our Towns Sends The Proud Signal That Everyone - Whoever They Are, Whatever Their Educational Background, Whatever Their Age Or Their Needs - Is Welcome.

.. Since It Was True That Study, Even When Done Properly, Can Only Teach Us What Wisdom, Right Conduct And Determination Consist In, They Wanted To Put Their Children Directly In Touch With Actual Cases, Teaching Them Not By Hearsay But By Actively Assaying Them, Vigorously Molding And Forming Them Not Merely By Word And Precept But Chiefly By Deeds And Examples, So That Wisdom Should Not Be Something Which The Soul Knows But The Soul's Very Essence And Temperament, Not Something Acquired But A Natural Property.

We Only Labor To Stuff The Memory, And Leave The Conscience And The Understanding Unfurnished And Void.

As For Our Pupils Talk, Let His Virtue And His Sense Of Right And Wrong Shine Through It And Have No Guide But Reason. Make Him Understand That Confessing An Error Which He Discovers In His Own Argument Even When He Alone Has Noticed It Is An Act Of Justice And Integrity, Which Are The Main Qualities He Pursues; Stubbornness And Rancour Are Vulgar Qualities, Visible In Common Souls Whereas To Think Again, To Change One's Mind And To Give Up A Bad Case On The Heat Of The Argument Are Rare Qualities Showing Strength And Wisdom.

In His Commerce With Men I Mean Him To Include- And That Principally- Those Who Live Only In The Memory Of Books. By Means Of History He Will Frequent Those Great Souls Of Former Years. If You Want It To Be So, History Can Be A Waste Of Time; It Can Also Be, If You Want It To Be So, A Study Bearing Fruit Beyond Price.

I Would Like To Suggest That Our Minds Are Swamped By Too Much Study And By Too Much Matter Just As Plants Are Swamped By Too Much Water Or Lamps By Too Much Oil; That Our Minds, Held Fast And Encumbered By So Many Diverse Preoccupations, May Well Lose The Means Of Struggling Free, Remaining Bowed And Bent Under The Load; Except That It Is Quite Otherwise: The More Our Souls Are Filled, The More They Expand; Examples Drawn From Far-off Times Show, On The Contrary, That Great Soldiers Ad Statesmen Were Also Great Scholars.

Learning Is A Good Medicine: But No Medicine Is Powerful Enough To Preserve Itself From Taint And Corruption Independently Of Defects In The Jar That It Is Kept In. One Man Sees Clearly But Does Not See Straight: Consequently He Sees What Is Good But Fails To Follow It; He Sees Knowledge And Does Not Use It.

The Profit We Possess After Study Is To Have Become Better And Wiser.

Make Your Educational Laws Strict And Your Criminal Ones Can Be Gentle; But If You Leave Youth Its Liberty You Will Have To Dig Dungeons For Ages.

I Do Not Teach. I Relate.

I Prefer The Company Of Peasants Because They Have Not Been Educated Sufficiently To Reason Incorrectly.

We Should Ask, Not Who Is The Most Learned, But Who Is The Best Learned.

People Commonly Educate Their Children As They Build Their Houses, According To Some Plan They Think Beautiful, Without Considering Whether It Is Suited To The Purposes For Which They Are Designed.

The Best Method For Preventing Destructive Cult Involvement Is Preventative Education. If Students And The Public At Large Are More Aware Of Destructive Groups Beforehand They May Better Understand And Resist Their Recruitment Efforts.

In Teaching It Is The Method And Not The Content That Is The Message.

The Main Aim Of Education Should Be To Send Children Out Into The World With A Reasonably Sized Anthology In Their Heads So That, While Seated On The Lavatory, Waiting In Doctors' Surgeries, On Stationary Trains Or Watching Interviews With Politicians, They May Have Something Interesting To Think About.

All Education Should Be Directed Toward The Refinement Of The Individual's Sensibilities In Relation Not Only To One's Fellow Humans Everywhere, But To All Living Things Whatsoever.

But All I Could Think Was In New York That Kid Would Have Been Stuck In A Straitjacket Practically From Birth And Dangled Over A Tank Full Of Educational Consultants And Remedial Experts All Snapping At His Ankles For The Next Twenty Years Arguing About His Special Needs And Getting Paid Plenty For It.

Enlightenment, Don't Know What It Is. It's Up To You, The Way You Think.

With Self-discipline, All Things Are Possible

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Just You And I And Nature, And The Father In The Garden.

I Wouldnt Be Where I Am Today Without The Amazing Public Arts Education That I Had.

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.

A Thorough Knowledge Of The Bible Is Worth More Than A College Education.

To Educate A Man In Mind And Not In Morals Is To Educate A Menace To Society.

The Gains In Education Are Never Really Lost. Books May Be Burned And Cities Sacked, But Truth, Like The Yearning For Freedom, Lives In The Hearts Of Humble Men.

I Do Not Want Art For A Few Any More Than Education For A Few, Or Freedom For A Few.

The Ultimate Victory Of Tomorrow Is Democracy, And Through Democracy With Education, For No People In All The World Can Be Kept Eternally Ignorant Or Eternally Enslaved.

The Education Of Young Citizens Ought To Form Them To Good Manners, To Accustom Them To Labor, To Inspire Them With A Love Of Order, And To Impress Them With Respect For. Lawful Authority. Religion Is The Only Solid Basis Of Good Morals; Therefore Education Should Teach The Precepts Of Religion, And The Duties Of Man Towards God.