Quotes and sayings about tag  education

155 Quotes

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

May Sarton

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Gordon B. Hinckley

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Oscar Wilde

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

Gordon Korman

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Robert Frost

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

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Romain Rolland

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

H.G. Wells

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Ruth Beechick

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

Hannah Arendt

On ne naƮt pas femme: on le devient.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Harold Howe

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Terry Pratchett

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

Harry Truman

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