2015-05-23

Famous 80 quotes and proverbs about education,a collection of education quotes



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“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” ― Jim Henson,education quotes

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“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ”  ― George Santayana

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“A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ”  ― Brander Matthews

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“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” ― Nelson Mandela

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“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” ― Eliphas Levi ,education quotes

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“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.  ” ― Martin H. Fischer

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“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” ― Horace Mann

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“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.” ― A. Bartlett Giamatti

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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ― Henry Brooks Adams,education quotes

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“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

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“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.” – Horace Mann ,education quotes

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“A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out”  ― Anon

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“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” ― Dr. David M. Burns ,education quotes

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“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” ― Denis Waitley

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“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.  ” ― George Eliot,education quotes

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“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” ― Martin H. Fischer

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“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” ― Greek Proverb

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“Always do what you are afraid to do. ” ― Ralph Waldo

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“America is the best half-educated country in the world.” ― Nicholas M. Butler ,education quotes

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“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong. ”  ― R. Baker

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. ” ― Henry Ford,education quotes

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“Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.” – Anatole France

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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ”― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements”  ― Napoleon Hill

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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”― Ernest Dimnet  ,education quotes

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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead

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“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” ― Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ”  ― Leighann Lord

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“Did you know that the Chinese symbol for 'crisis' includes a symbol which means 'opportunity'? ” ― Jane Revell & Susan Norman,education quotes

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“Do not train a child to learn by force or 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

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“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”  ― Pete Seeger

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“Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world” – Samuel Butler ,education quotes

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“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. ”― Mary Kay Ash ,education quotes

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“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered. It is something molded. ”― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle,education quotes

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“Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ”  ― Martin H. Fischer

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“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” ― Claus Moser ,education quotes

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“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ”― Edward Everett  ,education quotes

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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ― Will Durant

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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.   ― Oscar Wilde

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“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ”  ― Aristotle

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“Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. ”  ― George Boas,education quotes

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“Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.  ” ― William Butler Yeats

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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ”  ― John Dewey,education quotes

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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ”― William Butler Yeats  ,education quotes

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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” ― Robert Frost

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“Education is the best provision for old age.” ― Aristotle

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“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ”― George Washington Carver   ,education quotes

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela,education quotes

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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”   ― Allan Bloom

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“Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.”   ― Martin H. Fischer

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“Education is the transmission of civilization. ”  ― Ariel and Will Durant,education quotes

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ”  ― Albert Einstein,education quotes

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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” ― B. F. Skinner

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“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” ― Henry Peter Brougham

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“Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ”  ― Martin H. Fischer,education quotes

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“Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.” – Alfred North Whitehead

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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis,education quotes

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“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,education quotes

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“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”   ― G.M. Trevelyan

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“Education…is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,… by praise, but above all — by example.” – John Ruskin

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“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ”  ― John Maynard Keynes

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“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” ― Mark Twain,education quotes

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“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

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“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes,education quotes

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“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of both mind and body will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” ― Thomas Jefferson

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“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ”― Thomas Szasz  ,education quotes

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“Every artist was at first an amateur.” – Ralph W. Emerson,education quotes

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“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ”  ― Mark Twain

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“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.” ― Confucius

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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. ”― Vernon Law ,education quotes

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“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,education quotes

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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” ― Jane Austen

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“Give me a fish and I eat for a day.  Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb,education quotes

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“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ”― Vilfredo Pareto

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“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

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“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” ― Josef Albers

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“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” ― Gail Godwin  ,education quotes

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