Quotes on Early Education

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

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

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

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 for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

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

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early 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.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.