Quotes on Great Educational

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.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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.

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.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.