Quotes on Children Education

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

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.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.