Education Quotes

"The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning."

"The school is the primary and most effective instrument of social progress and reform."

"Education is a social process, and the school is primarily a social institution."

"I believe that the individual who is to be educated is a social individual."

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think."

"In the broadest sense, any subject is good as long as it is taught in such a way as to generate within the learner the desire to continue learning."

"The school supplies a simplified environment."

"A teacher engaged in the sacred duty of education is not thereby separated from the community or society."

"The school is also the beginning of moral training."

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

"Human nature in its entirety is in need of education."

"The young cannot have perspective with regard to any culture in which they live."

"The future is already being shaped by education we offer and the values we embody today."

"All genuine education comes through experience."

"Interest is the great motive-power in education."

"The future is built upon the promises of education."

"The school is the institution in which the possibilities of education may be realized."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

"The school has the responsibility of developing in every child those attitudes and capacities which will enable him to progress."

"A school system is good only insofar as it renders itself unnecessary."

"Life is the greatest teacher. Experience is the best form of education."

"The child should be enabled to make a natural and easy transition into a broader social world."

"The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'appetite' for learning and 'enjoyment' in broadening their understanding."

"True education does not fill buckets; it lights fires in the hearts of learners."

"Every person has within them a spark of divine light that education should cultivate."

"The mind's capacity for learning never diminishes; it only awaits proper cultivation."

"In teaching others, we discover we are always still learning."

"In the garden of learning, patience is both the gardener and the seed."

"To teach is to plant seeds whose harvest you may never see."