Education Quotes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

A library implies an act of faith.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
J. G. Holland

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean Paul Sartre

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
O. J. Simpson

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting Bull

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler