Great Educational Quotes - Page 2

• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Teaching

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

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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• The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

  Grayson L. Kirk

  Education, Personality, Important

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• The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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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 ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Sports, Education

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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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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

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• It is a very 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, Learning

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. 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, Memories, Teaching

  "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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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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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, School, Years

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