Education Quotes and Proverbs

Education Quotes and Proverbs
Education make a people easy to lead,
but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
Wiliam Butler Yeats
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American Saying
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterson
Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Frederick W.Robertson

Anatole France:
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Annie Sullivan:
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Aristotle:
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. [Greek Philospher]

Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Barbara Tuchman:
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Ben Sweetland:
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Bertrand Russell:
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. [Education and the Social Order]

Bill Beattie:
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Carl Rogers:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Charlotte Bronte:
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.

Clarence Darrow:
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Douglas Adams:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Edith Hamilton:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.

Edith Hamilton:
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated.

Epictetus:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus:
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. [Discourses]

Eric Hoffer:
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Ethel Barrymore:
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Finley Peter Dunne:
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

Flannery O'Conner:
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Fritz Redl:
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show. [When We Deal With Children]

George Bernard Shaw:
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Finley Peter Dunne:
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

Henry B. Adams:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.


Proverbs and sayings about education
Ben Sweet land:
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.
Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Hannah More:
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
George Bernard Shaw:
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Dean William R. Inge:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Finley Peter Dunne:
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

Henry B. Adams:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Proverbs and sayings about parents, children and education.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red Auerbach
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
Susanne Wesley
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis
Arab proverb
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to ...
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think. ...
"A mother understands what a child does not say."
"Every child born, has innate goodness."
"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them."
Richard L. Evans quotes
Children are our most valuable natural resource"
Herbert Hoover quotes (American president, 1874-1964)
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
John W. Whitehead quotes
"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."
Zig Ziglar quotes
"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."
M. Grundler quotes