100+ Education Quotes & Sayings

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

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We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

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Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

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O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

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