Inspirational Education Quotes - Page 3

• Education is our passport to the future.

  Malcolm X

  Education, First Day Of School, Educator

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  William Feather

  Education, Memories, Teaching

  "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Memories

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

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Trust, Education

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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• In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Character, Men

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Learning, Understanding

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

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  Lily Tomlin

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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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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• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

  Claus Moser, Baron Moser

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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