Inspiring Education Quotes - Page 2

• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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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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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, 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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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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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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• Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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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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• Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Education, Ignorant

  "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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  Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Education, Mind, Should

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

  Louis C. K.

  Education, Math, Men

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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