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Sep 15, 2025
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
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.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.