Quotes on Great Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

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.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

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 then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

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

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.