Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 4
A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
Anonymous
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
Thomas Love Peacock
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
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 advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard David Bach
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Martina Horner
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Sir William Haley
The true University of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.
W. C. Sellar
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Broughan
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
Martin H. Fischer
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is educated.
Edith Hamilton
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Saint Francis de Sales
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Annie Sullivan
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
Pete Seeger
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tre Cool
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can’t make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell
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