Quotes and sayings about tag  education

155 Quotes

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

Gordon Korman

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Greg Mortenson

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

H.G. Wells

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

Hannah Arendt

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

Harold Howe

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Harry Truman

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Henry Ford

People think of education as something they can finish.

Isaac Asimov

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan Illich

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Baldwin

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

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