Education Quotes - Page 6

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

God is in the details.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.