Quotes on Education

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

Education begins at the level of the learner.