Education Quotes

"A just society provides fair opportunities for all citizens to develop and exercise their capacities."

"Education should open minds, not fill them."

"To be truly educated is to understand that you know very little."

"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without guidance from another."

"Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity."

"The only true education is the cultivation of the mind."

"The greatest weapon against ignorance is education."

"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole of nature."

"The memory is strengthened by exercising it."

"Understanding makes the soul divine."

"Moral education develops the capacity to recognize and act on principles of justice."

"Fair equality of opportunity requires removing barriers based on circumstance of birth."

"The individual must find truth through engagement with the universal"

"Understanding requires sympathetic imagination"

"Education awakens the potential inherent in all humans"

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"Curiosity in children is but the appetite of knowledge."

"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."

"The differences of men in their natural talents are small in comparison with the vast difference that is wrought by education."

"I have found that the greatest fruitfulness for all intellectual influence comes when there is a warm personal relationship between teacher and student."

"Understanding is not something that happens to us; it is something we do."

"Desire of knowledge and arts is a natural appetite."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature makes between man and brute"

"The great advantage of conversation is that it engages one's thoughts"

"The mind is a blank slate when we are born"

"Man can become man only through education."

"The pursuit of knowledge without moral character leads to ruin."

"Education aims at the development of moral character, not mere knowledge."