Quotes on Children And Education

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.