Quotes on Great Education

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

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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