Education Quotes

"When a subject is highly abstract, an illustration drawn from the physical world may often serve the purpose of making the matter clearer."

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

"Education is the most perfect and powerful avenue to freedom."

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race."

"The most important thing is that the child learns to think for himself."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparent natural curiosity of the pupils."

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

"The great challenge of education is to enable people to think."

"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."

"The very heart of education is to respect the individual child."

"The greatest method of learning is by doing."

"I believe that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."

"Education should prepare us not for society as it is, but as it should be."

"The school must be a place for the cultivation of reason and the development of character."

"I believe that the school should represent present life, life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or in the playground."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"An education which leaves the emotions untouched can produce only a partially developed being."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"To be a teacher is to accept responsibility for the character of the young."

"The most effective education is that which teaches self-direction."

"Education is the creation of a sound and strong human being."

"Education liberates the human spirit from ignorance."

"Education in its most comprehensive and proper sense, is the preparation for life."

"In the march of human progress, education is the torch that lights the way."

"Sell a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."

"Education is a human right and the key to human development."

"Ignorance is enslaving; knowledge is liberating."

"The study of humanity must be as rigorous as the study of nature."