I came across these quotes and liked them so much I thought I would share them.
# 1, 8, 12, and 35 particularly resonate with me.
What is Education? Answers from 5th Century BC
to the 21st Century
- The principle goal of education
in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing
new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
-- Jean Piaget, 1896-1980, Swiss developmental psychologist,
philosopher
- An education isn't how much you
have committed to memory,
or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what
you know and what you don't.-- Anatole France, 1844-1924, French
poet, novelist
- Education is the most powerful
weapon which you can use to change the world. -- Nelson
Mandela, 1918-2013, South African President, philanthropist
- The object of education is to
teach us to love beauty.
-- Plato, 424 – 348 BC, philosopher mathematician
- The function of education is to
teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus
character - that is the goal of true education -- Martin Luther
King, Jr., 1929-1968, pastor, activist, humanitarian
- Education is what remains after
one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, physicist
- It is the mark of an educated
mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --
Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Greek philosopher, scientist
- Education is the power to think
clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to
appreciate life. -- Brigham Young, 1801-1877, religious leader
- Real education should educate
us out of self into something far finer – into a selflessness which links
us with all humanity. -- Nancy Astor, 1879-1964, American-born
English politician and socialite
- Education is not the filling of
a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler
Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet
- Education is freedom. –
Paulo Freire, 1921-1997, Brazilian educator, philosopher
- Education is not preparation
for life; education is life itself. -- John Dewey, 1859-1952,
philosopher, psychologist, education reformer
- Education is the key to unlock
the golden door of freedom.-- George Washington Carver, 1864-1943,
scientist, botanist, educator
- Education is an admirable
thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is
worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish
writer, poet
- The whole purpose of education
is to turn mirrors into windows. -- Sydney J.
Harris, 1917-1986, journalist
- Education's purpose is to
replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm
Forbes, 1919-1990, publisher, politician
- 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
unlock that treasure. – Emma Goldman, 1869 – 1940, political
activist, writer
- Much education today is monumentally
ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we
should be teaching them to grow their own plants. -- John W.
Gardner, 1912-2002, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under
President Lyndon Johnson
- Education is simply the soul of
a society as it passes from one generation to another.-- Gilbert
K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer, theologian, poet,
philosopher
- Education is the movement from
darkness to light. -- Allan Bloom, 1930-1992, philosopher,
classicist, and academician
- Education is learning what you
didn't even know you didn't know. -- Daniel J. Boorstin,
1914-2004, historian, professor, attorney
- The aim of education is the
knowledge, not of facts, but of values. -- William S. Burroughs,
1914-1997, novelist, essayist, painter
- The object of education is to
prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -- Robert
M. Hutchins, 1899-1977, educational philosopher
- Education is all a matter of
building bridges. -- Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994, novelist, literary
critic, scholar
- What sculpture is to a block of
marble, education is to the soul. -- Joseph Addison, 1672-1719,
English essayist, poet, playwright, politician
- Education is the passport to
the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-- Malcolm X, 1925-1965, minister and human rights activist
- Education is the key to success
in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their
students. -- Solomon Ortiz, 1937-, former U.S.
Representative-TX
- The very spring and root of
honesty and virtue lie in good education. -- Plutarch, 46-120AD,
Greek historian, biographer, essayist
- Education is a shared
commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and
enthusiastic parents with
high expectations. Bob Beauprez, 1948-, former member of
U.S. House of Representatives-CO
- The most influential of all
educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home. – William
Temple, 1881-1944, English bishop, teacher
- Education is the leading of
human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. -- John
Ruskin, 1819-1900, English writer, art critic, philanthropist
- Education levels the playing
field, allowing everyone to compete. -- Joyce Meyer, 1943-,
Christian author and speaker
- Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten. – B.F. Skinner,
1904-1990, psychologist, behaviorist, social philosopher
- The great end of education is
to discipline rather
than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather
than to fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tyron Edwards,
1809-1894, theologian
- Let us think of education as
the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us
there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into
benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation. -- John
F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States
- Education is like a lantern
which lights your way in a dark alley. – Zayed bin Sultan Al
Nahyan, 1918-2004, President of the United Arab Emirates for 33
years
- When educating the minds of our
youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts. -- Dalai
Lama, spiritual head
of Tibetan Buddhism
- Education is the ability to listen
to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost, 1874-1963, poet
- The secret in education lies in
respecting the student. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882,
essayist, lecturer, and poet
- My mother said I must always be
intolerant of ignorance, but understanding of
illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated
and more intelligent than college professors. -- Maya Angelou,
1928-, author, poet
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