Education Quotes - Page 16

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing - that's what counts.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Only the educated are free.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is to be educated."

[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.