Quotes About Education

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

So be thankful if you have been sent to school to Mistress Poverty, for though she is the sternest, yet she is the wisest and most faithful teacher, and if you will learn the tasks she sets, you will surely become a brave and noble man.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

had to make fun of Wanda. She worked her arithmetic problems absentmindedly. Eight times eight . . . let's see . . . nothing she could do about making fun of Wanda.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held a great many books.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democrac.

One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child's why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself, but he will have had a sense of participation in finding the answer.

It is, however, the better part of wisdom to regard the mistake as experience which will help guide you in the future, a part, though a painful part, of your education.

Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.

This, I think, is one of the most effective and rewarding forms of education. The interest is there, lurking somewhere in another person. You have only to seek for it. It will make every encounter a challenge and it will keep alive one of the most valuable qualities a person has—curiosity.

If the child's curiosity is not fed, if his questions are not answered, he will stop asking questions. And then, by the time he is in his middle twenties, he will stop wondering about all the mysteries of his world. His curiosity will be dead.