Education
Sharon Salzberg on Life and Education
“We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.”
Thomas Fuller on Facts
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.”
Benjamin Franklin on Education
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Walt Disney on Movies
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
Laurence J. Peter on Clutter
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Mark Twain on Education
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Confucius on Wisdom
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.“
Alec Bourne on Education
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
Edward Everett on Education
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.“
Michel de Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”
Galileo Galilei on Ignorance
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
John F. Kennedy on Liberty and Learning
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
Thomas Merton on Education
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
Plutarch on Wisdom
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
John Wilmot on Children
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
Anatole France on Education
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.“
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“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.”
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Victor Hugo on Education
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”