Quotes on Education

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.