Educate Quotes

• Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  William Osler

  Education, Healing, Health

  In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

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• You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

  Aristotle

  Life, Death, Education

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Education, Heart, Mind

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• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Wisdom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  Nancy Astor

  Education, Teacher, Real

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• Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Rich, Knows

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• I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Son, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• Educate a woman, you educate a nation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Nations

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Clever, Ideas

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• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

  Mother Jones

  Education, Down And, Conflict

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• The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Awareness, Educated

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Passion, Learning

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

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• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Education, Jobs, Thinking

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Liberty, Mass

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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