Education Quotes

"True education teaches one how to think, not what to think."

"It is not enough to prevent the would-be tyrant. Education is essential."

"What really matters is that we learn from experience and improve our characters."

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

"We do not learn by experience; we learn by reflecting upon experience."

"Education is the cultivation of our natural human capacities."

"Talent is not something we are born with; it must be cultivated, and this is a lifetime affair."

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil."

"Does the steady and patient word of the teacher ever reach anybody's ears."

"There is absolutely nothing that can be taught to anyone unless that individual has first prepared his mind to receive it."

"It is our duty to use our minds in the most profitable way possible."

"Whatever passes into the mind through the senses becomes the foundation of knowledge."

"Education is the most admirable and formative influence on human life."

"The most important period of life is not the age of university studies but infancy."

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world"

"Altruism grows as egoism diminishes through scientific education and social refinement."

"Education must cultivate both rational understanding and emotional refinement."

"Teaching must be Socratic dialogue, not mere transmission of established doctrine."

"The absence of practice is the cause of almost all deficiency."

"The mental faculties are improved by use or deteriorated by disuse like all other faculties."

"The greatest improvement in the condition of mankind must proceed from the improvement of education."

"Mental cultivation is essential to true freedom."

"The real problem of education is to make men think not what to think."

"Education is the great means by which humanity advances from barbarism to civilization."

"To be truly educated is to question everything, including education itself."

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

"If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development."

"Education is the path to freedom."