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Quotes About Education

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.
~ Maria Montessori
You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.
~ Jomo Kenyatta
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
~ Maria Montessori
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.
~ Jaime Escalante
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
~ Catherine McAuley
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!
~ Richard Bandler
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.
~ Antonio Gramsci
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
~ Maria Montessori
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
~ Peter Kropotkin
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
~ Nancy Kassebaum
Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
~ Ursula Burns
The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.
~ Seymour Papert
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
~ Maria Montessori
Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.
~ Seymour Papert
As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
~ Ivan Pavlov
We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.
~ Chanda Kochhar
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
~ Roger Bannister
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.
~ Maria Montessori
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.
~ Frances Harper
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
~ Bruce Jenner