Quotes on Great Educational

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

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.

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.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

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.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

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 mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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.