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Quotes About Education

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
~ George Washington Carver
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
~ Florence Nightingale
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
~ Al-Ghazali
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
~ Albert Einstein
Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
~ George Carlin
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
~ Paulo Freire
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
~ Bill Nye
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
~ Juana Inés de la Cruz
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.
~ Seymour Papert
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
~ Alfie Kohn
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
~ Cheikh Anta Diop
Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
~ Abdul Kalam
Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
~ Joan Robinson
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
~ Beatrix Potter
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
~ John Dewey
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
~ Akbar
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
~ Plato
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
~ Fred Astaire
Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience
~ David A. Kolb
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
~ Kurt Lewin