Quotes on Education

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. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • Education has so far been focused on “how”; now the need is to focus on “what” and “why”. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • Education must provide opportunities and programs for service, charity, cooperation, sacrifice, and social responsibility. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • Give your children two things – one is root and the other is wing. (unknown)
  • 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 you 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. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • 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. (unknown)
  • 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)