Quotes About Education

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

The child must teach the man.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life.

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

B ooks are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

Education is a life that has no end, an inexhaustible treasure, it has to be accepted until it gives up the last breath of death, without which all voids are unknown.

Teacher respect, motivation, self-improvement, deep subject knowledge, preparation, and transferring information are qualities all teachers should possess at any level and in any environment.

In the 1930s, he came up with an approach he calls "earned and deserved.""I believe, in order to be fair to all students, a teacher must give each individual student the treatment he earns and deserves. The most unfair thing to do is to treat all of them the same.

Student interest is directly proportional to the depth and breadth of teachers' knowledge; and student interest is vital to effective teaching.