Quotes on “education”

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.

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

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

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

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

All of life is a constant education.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.