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Quotes On Education
- All decisions we make must consider their impact on our grandchildren seven or more generations from now. (Thom Hartman)
- All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Among the greatest cultural lies is that we are, by nature, violent. (Joseph C. Pearce)
- Be yourself, everyone else is taken. (Oscar Wilde)
- Before a global revolution in the sphere of consciousness, nothing will change for the better. (Vaclav Havel)
- Children are not vessels to be filled, but lamps to be lit. (Swami Chinmayananda)
- Children are the only form of immortality we can be sure of. (Peter Ustinav)
- Children should be encouraged to learn about exploration, discovery, finding solutions, resolving conflict, organizing knowledge, and reconciling trade-offs.
- Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. (Mark Twain)
- Cooperation is a state of mind. There is little real progress until we make this discovery and act upon this knowledge. (Thomas Jefferson)
- Education can be a powerful instrument of profound social transformation.
- Education has so far been focused on “how”; now the need is to focus on “what” and “why”.
- Education is not learning of facts, but training the mind how to think. (Albert Einstein)
- Education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant)
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. (B.F. Skinner)
- Education is not the amount of information put into your brain. we must have life-building, man-making, and character-building assimilation of idea. (Swami Vivekananda)
- Education must be personalized to maximize the potential of each child.
- Education must provide opportunities and programs for service, charity, cooperation, sacrifice, and social responsibility.
- Education remains steeped in its past material goals, but today it must be concerned with the affairs of the age. (Maria Montessori)
- Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies. (Abraham Lincoln)
- Fine arts – music, dance, drawing, painting are an essential aspect of the development of the inner spirit of a child.
- Give your children two things – one is root and the other is wing.
- He who knows about other things is educated. He who knows about other people is learned. He who knows about himself is wise. (Swami Vivekananda)
- I have concluded that the old culture people of the world have important lessons to teach us; they may indeed be the lessons that will save our world. (Thom Hartman)
- I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. (Steve Jobs)
- If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. (Gelett Burgess)
- If we don’t change our direction, we are likely to end up where are headed. (Chinese Proverb)
- If you choose perfection, you often catch excellence. (William Fowble)
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok)
- If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want your children to be more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales. (Albert Einstein)
- Imagination will often carry us to the worlds that were never known. But without it we go nowhere. (Carl Sagan)
- Let students aspire for perfection – both within and without.
- Intuition tells the mind where to look next. (Jonas Salk)
- It is not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted. (Linda Conway)
- Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon, and wise too late. (Benjamin Franklin)
- Nothing in education is so astounding as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Henry Adams)
- Redesigning the education system offers the best, and probably the only, opportunity to build future societies and cultures. (Dhananjaya Kumar)
- Spending time with children is more important than spending money on children. (Anthony Douglas Williams)
- The cure of boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr)
- The educated do not share a common body of knowledge, but a common state of mind. (Mason Cooley)
- The end and aim of all education is to help the man grow. (Swami Vivekananda)
- The goal of education is to find connections between hidden phenomena. (Vaclav Havel)
- The greatest impediments to learning are: excessive stress, severe competition, lack of rest and sleep, and ridicule by teachers and parents.
- The intuitive mind is the sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Albert Einstein)
- The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. (Steve Jobs)
- The over emphasis on material education has been at the cost of human and spiritual education.
- The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. (John Stuart Mill)
- The true progress of humanity is impossible unless the goals being served by education is completely revised.
- There are two educations. One teaches us how to make a living, and the other how to live. (John Adams)
- To learn, one must first be prepared to unlearn. (Dhananjaya Kumar)
- Too many people are seeking security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death. (James Byrnes)
- True education can inspire and motivate ordinary students to perform extraordinarily.
- Two hundred conscious people, if they existed and found it necessary and legitimate, can change the whole life on earth. (G.I. Gurdjieff)
- We get educated out of our natural wisdom. (Kay Gardner)
- We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. (David Bohm)
- You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. (Arthur Miller)
- No problem can be solved by the same consciousness which has created it. (Albert Einstein)
