No man who worships education has got the best out of education....

Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

~G.K. Chesterton
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
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~Sydney J. Harris
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in
school. ~Albert Einstein
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to
economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air
Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted
in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy
McIntyre and Derek Bok
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than
to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has
ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to
pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot
have both. ~Abraham Flexner
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward
Everett
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing,
the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound, "The Instructor: II," Chapter
Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
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
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their
intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and
not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm
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

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
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a
liberal education. ~Tallulah Bankhead
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana

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

~Malcolm S. Forbes

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

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free,

meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau

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, "The
True Function and Value of Criticism; With Some Remarks on the
Importance of Doing Nothing: A Dialogue," The Nineteenth Century, July
1890 (Gilbert speaking)

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

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of
talking animals. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is
not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
~Cornelius Vanderbilt

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to

another. ~G.K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your

temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate

themselves. ~Abb Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class,

because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it. ~Aristotle

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys'

schooling interfere with their education! ~Grant Allen, 1894, commonly
attributed with various wordings to Mark Twain (Thanks, Garson O'Toole
ofquoteinvestigator.com!)

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

~Peter Drucker

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to
university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more
dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are

giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow
their own plants. ~John W. Gardner

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing
he was educated in. ~Will Rogers

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler
Yeats

Great Educational Quotes

Below are quotes we're collecting to use the "wisdom of the ages" to think deeply
about learning. If you have a favorite learning quote you'd like to contribute, email it
to admin@web20labs.com--or, like our great friend Peggy George did, you can even
email us your whole collection!

Human beings are curious by nature.

- Aristotle
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to
with diligence.
- Abigail Adams
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important
subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and
independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things
arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
- Agatha Christie
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to
force it upon the unreasoning.
- Agnes Repplierg
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of
freedom.
- Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live
its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
- Albert Einstein
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can
learn.
- Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant,
aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to
wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of
seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
- Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not
as a hard duty.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
Play is the highest form of research.
- Albert Einstein
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best teachers are those that show you where to look but don't tell you what to
see.
- Alexandra K. Trenfor

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to
see.
- Alexandra K.Trenfor
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
The freedom to make mistakes provides the best environment for creativity.
Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
- Anatole Franc
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France
I've learned... that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
- Andy Rooney
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They
seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who
must be taught to think.
- Anne Sullivan
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when
their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to
know about things.
- Anne Sullivan
People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant
success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan
Learning is not a spectator sport.
- Anonymous
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to
spot wrong questions.
- Anthony Jay
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work
and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
- Antoine de St. Exupery

All men by nature desire to know.

- Aristotle
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that
the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting
it.
- Aristotle
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
- Aristotle
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg -- not by
smashing it.
- Arnold Glasow
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the
same individual.
- Arthur Koestler
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
- B.B. King
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the
originality.
- Beatrix Potter
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Ben Franklin
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to
reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
- Benjamin Franklin
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not

value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

- Benjamin Greene
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps
the greatest service that one man can do another.
- Benjamin Jowett
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
- Bertolt Brecht
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group,
national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this
motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered
and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are
expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and
spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in
their mental and spiritual life.
- Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.
To improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, rather than to load
the memory with thoughts of other men.
- Bill Beattie

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually
asking questions.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
- Bob Talbert
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and let him
know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right

answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of
mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
- Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- Buckminster Fuller
Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.
- C. B. Neblette
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those
who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of
knowledge, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for
uniqueness.
- Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn ...and
change.
- Carl Rogers
When you make the finding yourself--even if you are the last person on Earth to see
the light--you will never forget it.
- Carl Sagan
Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Carolyn Coats
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
- Charles Dickens
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one;
the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will
hereafter live.
- Charlotte Mason
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the
surface of a child's nature.
- Charlotte Mason
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

- Chinese Proverb
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese proverb
Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.
- Chinese Proverb
One must be a student before one can be a teacher.
- Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation.
- Chinese saying
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
- Chuang-Tzu
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
- Claude Bernard
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by
creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
- Clay P. Bedford
Learning without thought is labor lost.
- Confucius
You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius
Education is soul crafting.
- Cornel West
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for
themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Dorothy Parker
Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
- Dr. John G. Hibben
Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service and it must be thought of as a
mission.
- Dr. Ralph Tyler
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be
entertained, and delighted.
- Dr. Seuss
Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
- Dr. W. Edwards Deming
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework.
- Edith Ann [Lily Tomlin]
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
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence
are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.
- Edward De Bono
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an
obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do
this.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned
usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
Perhaps the greatest joy is learning how to motivate yourself.

- Floyd Maxwell
The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his mistakes. The more a
childs work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more
a teacher removes them from the childs work the duller, more desolate and
impersonal it becomes.
- Franz Cizek
Because we cannot measure the things that have the most meaning, we give the
most meaning to the things we can measure.
- Fred Hargadon
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Frederick Douglass
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those
who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- G.K. Chesterton
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish
what is worth reading.
- G.M. Trevelyan
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
- Galileo
The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.
- George A. Dorsey
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but
prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of
all I might have learned at home by myself.
- George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every student can learn. Just not on the same day or in the same way.
- George Evans

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his
country.
- George Washington
Education is understanding relationships.
- George Washington Carver
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
- George Washington Carver
Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes, and that
times change.
- Gina Shapira
Children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from
fun. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.
- Glenn Doman
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
- Goethe
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
- Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Goethe
Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought
and sold.
- Grace Llewellyn & Amy Silver
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of
the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
- Grayson Kirk
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the
other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme

to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for
gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile
and uninquisitive citizens.
- H. L. Mencken
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe...
- H.G. Wells
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to
reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard
citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
- H.L. Mencken
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Harold S. Hulbert
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they
should also know why and how.
- Harry K. Wong
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
- Harvey S. Firestone
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
- Helen Keller
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in
which he is placed.
- Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Henri L. Bergson
A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in
the form of inert facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams
We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as
with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
- Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering
brook.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right.
- Henry Ford
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn
is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
- Ignacio Estrada
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
- Isaac Asimov
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society
as it is.
- Ivan Illich
The mind grows by what it feeds on.
- J.G. Holland

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so,
maybe for twenty years.
- Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of
his mind.
- Jacques Barzun
Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.
- James Bellanca
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and
the other how to live.
- James Truslow Adams
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes
a difference.
- Jane Goodall
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
- Japanese Proverb
The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of
doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new
things, not simple of repeating what other generations have done--men who are
creative, inventive, and discoverers.
- Jean Piaget
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is
not to save time, but to squander it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
True teaching is one that not teaches knowledge but stimulates children to gain it.
- Jill Eggleton
No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for
his own education.
- John Carolus

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
- John Cotton Dana
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to
develop our talent.
- John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing
could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must
first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not
be trusted.
- John Holt
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the
problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does
interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
- John Holt
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of
learners.
- John Holt
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
- John Keats
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are
excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from
books.
- John Lubbock
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every

child should be given the wish to learn.

- John Lubbock
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly
like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the
dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a
majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it
establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the
body.
- John Stuart Mill
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
- John Taylor Gatto
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young
people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of
pursuing his education.
- John W. Gardner
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is
practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything
so primitive.
- John W. Gardner
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The only way to be totally free is through education.
- Jose Marti
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
- Joseph Addison
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
- Joseph Campbell
To teach is to learn twice.
- Joseph Joubert
The final evaluation should not be the hardest part of the course.
- Ken Whytock

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set
off that spark in one another.
- Kenny Ausubel
It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.
- L. Conway
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
- Latin Proverb
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and
experience, and has little to do with school or college.
- Lillian Smith
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
- Linus Pauling
Our children need to be treated as human beings - exquisite, complex and elegant in
their diversity.
- Lloyd Dennis
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do
from learning the answer itself.
- Lord Alexander
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he
is, and respect for what he may become.
- Louis Pasteur
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no
one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Education is not something which the teacher does ...it is a natural process which
develops spontaneously in the human being.
- Maria Montessori
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
- Maria Montessori
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.
- Maria Montessori
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of
the teacher.
- Maria Montessori
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the
small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to the big differences
that we often cannot foresee.
- Marian Wright Edelman
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
- Marie Curie
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
- Marilyn Howshall
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
- Mark Twain
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
- Mark Twain

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in
the long run.
- Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't
read them.
- Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you
find out why.
- Mark Twain
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Mark VanDoren
The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we
teach.
- Meladee McCarty
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo
Training teaches how. Education teaches why.
- Nido Qubein
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation
for life.
- Northrop Frye
A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth learning can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true
appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or
worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject,
and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are
often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle,
teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run
from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge--and knowing myself is as
crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.
- Parker Palmer
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own
expectations.
- Patricia Neal
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of
education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices
critically.
- Paulo Freire
Knowledge, which is acquired under compulsion, obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato
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
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying
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.
- Rachel Carson
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of an
education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What did you ASK at school today?
- Richard Fenyman
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
- Richard Moss
In any case, clearly at some point in the first decade of life, the student must begin to
direct their own education and life experiences to shape their future. The rise of
civilizations is more and more lower and middle income children with fires lit. The fall
of civilizations is progressively fewer with fires lit.
- Robert C. Bowman
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your
self confidence.
- Robert Frost
When one teaches, two learn.
- Robert Half
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout
their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
- Roger Lewin
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
- Roger Lewin

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while

discouragement often nips it in the bud.
- Samuel Butler
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell
the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and
the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Samuel Johnsons
Teachers teach someone something, in that order.
- Samuel M. Natale
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and
capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would
make no figure in it.
- Samuel Richardson
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
- Shelby Foote
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Sir Francis Bacon
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own
education.
- Sir Walter Scott
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon
which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course,
for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
- Sir William Osler
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high
pressure into passive receptacles...He is a senior student anxious to help his juniors.
- Sir William Osler
I'm always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

- Socrates
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty
until you try.
- Sophocles
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
- St. Augustine
Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque (I make free adults out of children by means of
books and a balance).
- St. John's College Motto
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us,
and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
- Stephen Downes
Hack your education.
- Steve Hargadon
My child is not defective
- Steve Hargadon
Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.
- Sybil Marshall
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening
mine; as he who lights his taper [(candle)] at mine, receives light without darkening
me.
- Thomas Jefferson
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
- Thomas Paine
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or
far away.
- Thoreau

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

- Tony Buzan
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish
what is worth reading.
- Trevelyan
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to
the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards
Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take
control of their lives.
- Unknown
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop
students who can create their own image.
- Unknown
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
- Victor Hugo
Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a
diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
- Wendy Priesnitz
The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
- Will Rogers
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.
- William Blake
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to
use the information you get.
- William Feather
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have
prepared for himnot even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are,
and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
- Woodrow Wilson

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- Yeats