It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Hector Berlioz
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. ~Niels Bohr
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~Perelman
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ~Jim Rohn
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the
same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ~Carl Rogers
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and
fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
~James B. Stockdale
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ~Cicero
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to
ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should
know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to
know it. ~Sir William Haley
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone
could have. ~Lee Iacocca
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. ~Joseph Campbell
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. ~W. B. Yeats
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than
by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them,
as comets amongst the stars. ~Linnaeus
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~Confucius
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal
influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to
the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson
Alcott
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 may be engaged in. ~Abraham
Lincoln
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner;
put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns
and the way he understands it. — Soren Kierkegaard
The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller
Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Gandhi
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. — Dudley Field Malone
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of
a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our
miracles and reveal new ones. — Henry David Thoreau
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. — Alexander Dumas
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Abraham Maslow
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson
