Quotations for Educators about Education
Quotations teach our students how to think and what to think. They improve their minds, load memory with thoughts, inspire, and develop language skills. ESL teachers can integrate quotations into various classroom activities.
Before we choose our tools and techniques we must choose our dreams and values. - Anon
We can easily forgive a child who is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make a man more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis
To develop a complete mind: study the science of art; study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. - Leonardo da Vinci
The curriculum is to be thought of in terms activity and experience rather than knowledge to be acquired and facts to be stored. - Haddow Report UK 1931
The guiding principle being put forward is that schools must be self directing. - John Goodland
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. - Howard Gardner
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody is not thinking. - George S Paton
Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had. - John Dewey
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest. - Charles Darwin
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. - Chuang Tzu
Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel. - Charles Handy
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey
The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller
Teachers who do a bad job with old tools are likely to do a worse job with strange new tools. - Anon Educator
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
Treat people as if they were what they might be, and you will help them become capable of being. - Goethe
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. - Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. - Sir Claus Moser
Thoughts come clearly while one walks. - Thomas Mann
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land amongst the stars. - Les Brown
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. - Agatha Christie
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert Maynard Hutchins
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer
Education makes people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Peter Broughan
Comparison, a great teacher told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. - Jim Collins
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm S. Forbes
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. - George Bernard Shaw
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. - Ernest Dimnet
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
You miss 100% of all the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretsky
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
Systems of schooling are over managed and under led. - Thomas Sergiovanni
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Edith Ann
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. - Alfred North Whitehead
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. - Niels Bohr
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. - Unknown Author
What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out. - John Holt
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care. - Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990
The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer. - Edward Hall Anthropologist
Most advances in science comes from when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. - Peter Burdon
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - E. E. Schumacher
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir man's blood... make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. - Daniel H. Burnham
Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know. - R. Verdi
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. - Nicholas Murray Butler
This is a dreary era. Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education. - Marion Brady
Remember a dead fish can float downstream but it takes a live one to swim upstream. - W. C. Fields
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