Children And Education Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

  Graduation, Education, Memorable

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• A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Education, Hippie, Teaching

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

  Wendell Phillips

  Education, Wisdom, Children

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• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.470, Best Books on

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  How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Education, Children, Stupid

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. July 29, 1979.

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• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

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• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Children

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Nature, Children, Accountability

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

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• The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Education, Children, Art And Music

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• Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, School, Carpe Diem

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Wisdom, School

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