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Quotes About Education

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
~ Carl Linnaeus
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
~ Peter Drucker
A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
~ Maria Montessori
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
~ Vera Wang
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
~ Alphonso Jackson
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
~ Caroline Pratt
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.
~ Stephen Brookfield
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
~ Luis Fortuno
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.
~ James L. Barksdale
To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
~ Joseph Beuys
There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life
~ Maria Montessori
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
~ Socrates
Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can't work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.
~ John Goodman
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
~ Maria Montessori
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
~ Ronnie James Dio
We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson
If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!
~ Jello Biafra
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
~ Jane Goodall
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
~ Julia Gillard
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
~ Brigham Young