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1. The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
2. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
--Lee Iacocca
3. The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
--Jacques Martin Barzun
4. A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
--Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain, University of Chicago
5. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
--B. F. Skinner
6. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
7. If I were asked to enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the list... If I can't give a child a better reason for studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there.
--Dorothy De Zouche
8. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
--Robert Frost
9. I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
--Sir Winston Churchill
10. If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
--Chinese proverb
11. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will Durant
12. Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
--Pete Seeger
13. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
--Malcolm Forbes
14. He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
--Richard Henry Dann
15. There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.
--John Adams
16. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--William Butler Yeats
17. If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember.
--Unknown
18. Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.
--Ropo Oguntimehin
19. The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
--Unknown
20. There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
--Mark Twain
21. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
--Lord Chesterfield
22. Education is bitter but the fruit is sweet.
--Agustin Marissa
23. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
--Wendell Phillips
24. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
--B.B. King
25. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
--Angela Schwindt
26. I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
--Henry Adams
28. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
--James Baldwin
29. Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Broughan
30. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. Only the educated are free.
--Epictetus
32. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
--Malcolm Forbes
33. Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons.
--John Ruskin
34. More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.
--Jonathan Kozol
35. Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
--Horace Mann
36. Learning is finding out what you already know
--Richard Bach
37. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
--Anatole France
38. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
--Ben Franklin
39. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
--Kahlil Gibran
40. If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
--Robert F. Goheen
41. To teach is to learn twice.
--Joseph Joubert
42. The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
--Laurence Lee
43. Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
44. Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
45. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
46. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
--Galileo Galilei
47. College isn't the place to go for ideas.
--Hellen Keller
48. 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.
--Sir William Haley
49. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
--Aristotle
50. Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. George Savile,
--Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.
51. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
-- Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.
52. Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas .
53. The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
--Sherwood Anderson
54. It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
--Robert M. Hutchins
55. The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist.
56. No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
--G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
57. The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
--Andre Gide (1869-1951) French writer.
58. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
--Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist.
59. The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. essayist and poet.
60. He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, author, scientist, inventor and philosopher.
61. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.
62. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams.
63. A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.
--Anon
64. Education is too important to be left solely to educators.
--Francis Keppel
65. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. --Robert Frost
66. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- C. C. Colton
67. Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-- Abigail Adams
68. The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
-- Piet Hein
69. All learning begins with the simple phrase, "I don't know."
-- I don't know.
70. To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
-- Tyron Edwards
71. To learn, you must want to be taught.
-- Proverbs 12:1
72. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
-- John Dewey
73. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers
74. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
– Aristotle
75. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist
76. Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti
77. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week,' October 7, 1951
78. We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
-- Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician, and writer
79. Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.
-- David McCord
80. We are tied down, all our days for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where with great thinkers, great literature helps. In their company we are still in the ordinary world, but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius. And some of their vision becomes our own."
-- Sir Richard Livingstone
81. When you appeal to the highest level of thinking, you get the highest level of performance.
-- Jack Stack
82. Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
83. Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
-- Alexander Pope
84. Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
-- Samuel Johnson
85. It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
-- Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
86. Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
-- J. Willard Marriott
87. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
– Confucius
88. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
-- Bill Beattie
89. 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.
-- John W. Gardner
90. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
-- Roger Lewin
91. The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
-- Carl R. Rogers
93. They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
-- Richard Yates
94. The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
-- Bishop Mandell Creighton
95. 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 know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France
96. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein
97. Persons of genius, it is true, are a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow."
-- John Stuart Mill
98. Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
99. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him
-- Jonathan Swift
100. To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
-- Albert Einstein

 

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