Education Quotes

"It is a matter of great importance that the labouring poor should be well informed."

"The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest of the masters."

"The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter is not so much owing to nature as to habit, custom and education."

"The learner always begins by not understanding what the teacher understands."

"Teaching is not the transmission of knowledge but the awakening of consciousness."

"Education is the cultivation of the universal within the particular."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

"The more the mind has thought of diverse things, the more it is capable."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"The desire to know is the mark of a rational being."

"Children are not born with knowledge, but with the capacity to gain it."

"Education maketh the man."

"Understanding requires the breaking down of complex things into simple ones."

"Education is the foundation upon which the future is built."

"Children are the future; educate them with the truth."

"Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge."

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

"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences but to open and dispose their minds."

"Learning is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."

"The education of children is the primary work of civilization."

"As the soil must be prepared for crops to flourish, so must the mind be prepared for knowledge to take root."

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

"The path to wisdom lies in questions asked, not answers given."

"La educación es la base del progreso y la libertad."

"La ignorancia es la noche del alma, la educación es su aurora."

"El futuro de nuestro país depende de la educación de nuestra juventud."

"La educación popular es la garantía de la libertad republicana."

"Un pueblo culto es un pueblo libre."

"La educación moral es tan importante como la educación intelectual."

"La educación es el camino hacia la verdadera emancipación."