Quotes on Inspirational Educational

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

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.

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.

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.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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.

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

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.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

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

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

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.