Early Education Quotes

• Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Children, Fall, Thinking

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Quality, Life Is

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Parenting

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Teaching

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Reading, Printed Word

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• Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

  Marilyn Jager Adams

  Children, Reading, Skills

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  Plato

  Leadership, Sports, Use

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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