Quotes on Education

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Education is preparation to live completely.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

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

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.