Education Quotes and Sayings

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile…. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move…. Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.
John Dewey

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
William James

What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
Thomas Arnold

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

It takes a village to raise a child.
African proverb

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin

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.
Russell Baker

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Woody Allen

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Hannah More

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert Maynard Hutchins

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
James B. Stockdale

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one.
Bel Kaufman

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
J. Bronowsk

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

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.
Anonymous

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

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t.
L. L. Henderson

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein