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Education Quotes

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -- Mark Twain

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

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten. -- Mark Twain

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius

Instead of teaching kids about science, the teacher can teach the kid to be a scientist. They engage the student in creating the material. In other words, students become scientists, artists, writers of songs, producers of plays, authors of histories in their communities, publishers of newspapers, and builders of houses. -- Jack Shelton

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. -- William Haley

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

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. -- Roger Lewin

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. -- Thomas Edison

"Do you think you can maintain discipline?" asked the Superintendent. "Of course I can," replied Stuart. "I'll make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself." -- E.B. White, "Stuart Little"

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. -- Plato

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Conner

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -- James Baldwin

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -- Unknown

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. -- Simone Weil

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

Only those who do nothing make no mistakes. -- Unknown

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. -- Allan Bloom

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

If anything concerns me, it's the oversimplification of something as complex as assessment. My fear is that learning is becoming standardized. Learning is idiosyncratic. Learning and teaching is messy stuff. It doesn't fit into bubbles. -- Michele Forman, 2001 Teacher of the Year

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. -- George Evans

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon. -- Unknown

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Unknown

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. -- Marva Collins