100+ Education Quotes & Sayings

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

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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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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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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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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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Play is the highest form of research.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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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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The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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

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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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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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You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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

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

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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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 became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

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