Quotes About Education

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.

Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.