Quotes About Growth

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Education made us what we are.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

Having an education is invaluable.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.