Quotes on “education”

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

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

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.