Quotes About Growth

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Education must precede motivation.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.