Quotes About Education

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Teaching: One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer. Saying of the Prophet

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can endure this knowledge without cynicism, as a lover of humankind, greater compensations will be open to you than a sense of your own importance or satisfaction in thinking about the unreliability of others.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

The Sufi teacher's mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.

The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.