Education Quotes

The following education quotes are my dedication to lifelong learning. Education does not just mean formal education but the day to day life learning we go through.

• EDUCATION QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  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.
  Author Unknown


• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
  Malcolm Forbes


• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
  Jim Rohn


• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
  Will Durant


• Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
  William Allin


• A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
  Anonymous


• Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
  Ambrose Bierce


• Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know.
  R. Verdi


• 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
  Bill Beattie


• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
  Lily Tomlin


• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
  Anatole France


• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
  Mark Twain


• 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.
  J. Bronowski


• A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
  James B. Stockdale


• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
  Epictetus






• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes


• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
  Charlotte Bronte


• You teach best what you most need to learn.
  Richard David Bach


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


• Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
  R.D. Clyde


• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
  Albert Einstein


• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
  Edward Bulwer-Lytton


• 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.
  Sir William Haley


• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
  Alvin Toffler


• Education is the transmission of civilization.
  Ariel and Will Durant


• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
  Carl Rogers


• It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
  Edith Hamilton

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