Great Education Quotes - Page 3

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Teaching

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Education, Real, Learning

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

  Attributed; no source found

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

  William Haley

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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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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• 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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• Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

  Claus Moser, Baron Moser

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• [on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  William Feather

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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