100+ Education Quotes & Sayings

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

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

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

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Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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Play is the highest form of research.

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There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

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Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

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Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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The only things you learn are the things you tame

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Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

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

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My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

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