EDUCATION
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance... it is the illusion of knowledge.
-Stephen Hawking
Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
-Chuang Tzu
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.’
-de Montaigne quoting Cicero
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
-Mary Pettibone Poole
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
-Albert Einstein
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 what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
-Albert Einstein
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
-Confucius
Knowledge is solving problems no one else can.
- Anonymous
Anyplace that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
-Al Capp
What a teacher doesn't say is a telling part of what a student hears.
-Maurice Natanson
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
-Eugene Ionesco
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and
generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true
education should be to unlock that treasure.
-Emma Goldman
The potential of a child is the most intriguing and stimulating thing in all creation.
-Ray L. Wilbur
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost
Knowledge which is obtained under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
-Plato
Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-E. M. Forster
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-George Bernard Shaw
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
The educator is like a good gardener, whose function is to make
available healthy, fertile soil in which a young plant can grow strong
roots.
-E. F. Schumacher
Good teachers never teach anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
-S. I. Hayakawa
A teacher's day is one-half bureaucracy, one-half crisis, one-half
monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.
-Susan Ohanian
The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think.
-John Dewey
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge.
-Tze-sze
An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
-C. V. Wedgwood
The schools of the country are its future in miniature.
-Tehyi Hsieh
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
-R. Inman
That’s what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
-Doris Lessing
Education has for its object the formation of character.
-Herbert Spencer
I forgot what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned.
-Patrick White
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
-Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
A child miseducated is a child lost.
-John F. Kennedy
Education has really one basic factor, a sine qua non—you must want it.
-George Edward Woodberry
Education is…hanging around until you’ve caught on.
-Robert Frost
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
-Mother Teresa
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
-B. F. Skinner
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
-Elbert Hubbard
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
-Confucius
Learning is discovering that something is possible.
-Fritz Perls
Successful teachers are surpassed by their students.
-Anonymous
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
-John Lubbock
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.
-Jacob Bronowski
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
-Joseph Addison
Education...an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
-Aristotle
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
-Baltasar Gracian
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
-Albert Einstein
When you do know something about the reality of the world that those
who stand in ignorance do not know, then you can't not educate.
-Betty Powell
Education: a succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
-George Bernard Shaw
The end and aim of all education is the development of character.
-Francis W. Parker
The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
-Jacques Barzun
To teach is to learn twice.
-Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics.
-Joseph Joubert
Learning is always rebellion...Every bit of new truth is revolutionary to what was believed before.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
A good teacher has been defined as one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-Thomas J. Carruthers
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
-Maria Montessori
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things,
the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
-Carter G. Woodson
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
-Will Durant
...Truth...lives in the hearts of humble men.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
-Will Durant
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-B. F. Skinner
In teaching, it is the method and not the content that is the message…the drawing out, not the pumping in.
-Ashley Montagu
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
-Edmund Burke
They know enough who know how to learn.
-Henry Adams
No student knows his subject. The most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
-Woodrow Wilson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-Henry Peter Brougham
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
-Henri Amiel
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar.
-Samuel Johnson
There is the story of the young man who wanted to study under a Zen master. "I have read many books on Zen," he said, trying to impress the master. The Zen master began to pour him a cup of tea. He filled the cup, but continued pouring until the tea spilled all over the table and onto the floor. "Stop!" cried the student. "Why are you doing that?" "You are like this cup," said the master. "How can you learn when you are so full of knowledge? Come back when you are empty."
-S. Smith-Heavenrich
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
-Epictetus
