True Education Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Criminals, May

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

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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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• True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

  David O. McKay

  Art, Character, Doe

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

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• Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Real, Fiction

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

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• True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prove, Industrious

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Matter, Fresh Start

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Differences, Ability, Knows

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• The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

  John Ruskin

  People, Enjoy, Objects

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

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• All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Memories, Teaching, Helping Others

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Communion with God”, p.68, Penguin

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• I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

  John Dewey

  Children, Believe, Demand

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.229, Indiana University Press

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• A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Real

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.167, 谷月社

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• True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Spiritual, Goal, Aim

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  True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

  Philip Pullman

  True Love, Falling In Love, Flower

  "Common sense has much to learn from moonshine" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.

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• The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Learning, Knowledge, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

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• Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Sacrifice, Dedication, Investment

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 24, 2013

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Children, Learning

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• It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Two, Goal

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

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• No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Education, Brain, Principles

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• The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

  Boris Sidis

  Men, Evil, Principles

  Boris Sidis (1917). “Philistine and Genius”

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