Quotes on Children 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.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

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.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

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

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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.