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Quotes About Education

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
~ John Ruskin
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
~ William Ellery Channing
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
~ William Allen White
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.
~ John Dewey
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
~ Ivan Illich
Learning is the making of meaning.
~ Robert Kegan
Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.
~ Flannery O'Connor
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.
~ Charlotte Mason
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.
~ Robert Kraft
The knowledge of all things is possible
~ Leonardo da Vinci
For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to 'sell' the learning to them.
~ Eric Jensen
Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
~ Edward T. Hall
People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?
~ Sugata Mitra
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
~ Edith Hamilton
I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.
~ Richard Bandler
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
~ Seneca the Elder
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
~ Isadora Duncan
The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.
~ Robin Sharma
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
~ Eric Mazur
Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
~ George S. Clason
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.
~ Saadi
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
~ Paul Gauguin