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Education has the power to shape minds, open doors, and transform lives. The following quotes capture the essence of learning, offering wisdom and insight from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries throughout history. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or lifelong learner, these words inspire reflection on the true value of education in our lives.   ◀ Back
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Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Topic: Education
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- André Gide
Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality
Topic: Education
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
Topic: Education
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We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.
Topic: Education
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Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
- Derrick A. Bell
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Topic: Education
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Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.
- Rafe Esquith
Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...
- Tanya R. Liverman
Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education
Topic: Education
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Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?
- Sidney Poitier
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Topic: Education
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Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.
- Peter O. Gray
Topic: Education
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Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail.
- Leigh A. Bortins
The Core
Topic: Education
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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- A.S. Neill
Topic: Education, Philosophical
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Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
- J. Maarten Troost
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
- Ben Carson
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
- Destiny Booze
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer.
- Stringfellow Barr
Topic: Education
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Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
- Roy Peter Clark
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Topic: Education
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About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
- Robert Graves
Goodbye to All That
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
- C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.
- Diane Flynn Keith
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
- Marilyn Howshall
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
- Linda Leaming
Married to Bhutan
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
- J. Rufus Fears
Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- André Gide
Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
- Derrick A. Bell
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.
- Rafe Esquith
Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...
- Tanya R. Liverman
Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?
- Sidney Poitier
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.
- Peter O. Gray
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail.
- Leigh A. Bortins
The Core
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- A.S. Neill
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
- J. Maarten Troost
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
- Ben Carson
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
- Destiny Booze
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer.
- Stringfellow Barr
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
- Roy Peter Clark
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
- Robert Graves
Goodbye to All That
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
- C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.
- Diane Flynn Keith
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
- Marilyn Howshall
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
- Linda Leaming
Married to Bhutan
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
- J. Rufus Fears
Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
- André Gide
Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
- Derrick A. Bell
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.
- Rafe Esquith
Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...
- Tanya R. Liverman
Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?
- Sidney Poitier
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.
- Peter O. Gray
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail.
- Leigh A. Bortins
The Core
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- A.S. Neill
Topic: Education, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
- J. Maarten Troost
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
- Ben Carson
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
- Destiny Booze
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer.
- Stringfellow Barr
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
- Roy Peter Clark
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
- Robert Graves
Goodbye to All That
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
- C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.
- Diane Flynn Keith
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
- Marilyn Howshall
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
- Linda Leaming
Married to Bhutan
Topic: Education
NOT YET RATED ▼
I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
- J. Rufus Fears
Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
Topic: Education
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