Education Quotes - Page 26

• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Wisdom, Children

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman

  Humble, Illiterate Person, Stupidity

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Music, Children, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Sarcastic, Religious, Atheist

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Children, Future, Reading

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• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

  John Dewey

  Future, Learning, Preparation

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Teacher, Powerful, Thinking

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

  Timothy Leary

  Humorous, Learning, Brain

  "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parenting, World

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• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Teaching, Math

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• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

  Will Rogers

  Gambling, Film, One Thing

  Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949) ch. 6

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• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Thinking

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Patriotic

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Peace, Money, War

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Useless, Unschooling

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Teaching

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

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• I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

  Steve Irwin

  Motivation, Believe, Teaching

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• Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

  Patrick Cleburne

  Teacher, Giving Up, War

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• Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Law, Luck

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1984

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• The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

  James Heckman

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

  Reuven Feuerstein

  Learning, Self, Organization

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