Great Education Quotes

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

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 of the nation.

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.

Education is our passport to the future.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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.