Education Quotes - Page 4

• Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

  James Wood-Mason

  Inspirational, Life, Today

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• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

  Vern Law

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Education is not received. It is achieved.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, School, Achieve

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Learning

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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  Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Teaching

  Euripides (1931). “Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians”, Stanford University Press

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Teacher, Appreciation

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Education is the transmission of civilization.

  Will Durant

  Teacher, Teaching, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Teaching, Asking Questions

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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• What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Inspirational, Learning, World

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

  Paul E. Gray

  Life Lesson, Teaching, Independent

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• Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

  Raymond Queneau

  Ideas, Knowledge Learning, Innovation

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• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

  Carl T. Rowan

  War, Book, People

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

  George Santayana

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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

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• The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

  Ted Sizer

  Moving Forward, Future, Learning

  "Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School". Book by Ted Sizer, p. 95, 1984.

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• Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Memories, Desire

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Beautiful, Teacher

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.258, Random House

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

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

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Wall, Learning

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

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

  John Hope Bryant

  Money, Determination, Freedom

  Source: www.ebony.com

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  Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teaching

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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