Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 9
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, ‘As much as the living are to the dead.’
Diogenes Laetius
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
All I really need to know … I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
Richard Bach
The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
John Shaw Billings
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education … (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John Dewey
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Helen Keller
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O’Conner
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
The most essential part of a student’s instruction is obtained, as I believe, not in the lecture room, but at the beside.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Wendy Kaminer
They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
Richard Yates
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
Patricia Neal
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical saying
Do not train children to learning by force and 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
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
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
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
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 on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. It is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for example, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor.
George Bernard Shaw
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
I pay the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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