Inspiring Educational Quotes - Page 2

• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

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

  Sidney Sugarman

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

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• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

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

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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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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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  Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  Herbert Spencer

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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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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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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