Quotes on Inspirational Education

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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.

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

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.