Quotes about education

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

— Source Unknown

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

— Source Unknown

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

— Source Unknown

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

— Source Unknown

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

— John Updike

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

— Claire Weeks

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

— Simone Weil

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

— Walt Whitman

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

— Orson F. Whitney

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

— Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

— Barbara W. Winder

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

— Brigham Young

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

— Mao Zedong

Repeticio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of all learning.

— Saint Thomas Acquinas

Education may not make a change of your life, it makes you ponder over at least.

— Mak Kazeronnie

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

— Albert Einstein

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

— Ali Ibn Abi-Talib

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

— Dejan Stojanovic

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The certified quality of person's actual education reflects in the degree of respect he employs in his words while talking with others.

— Anuj Somany

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

— Bryant McGill

Real Education....... Learning in infinite depth until to discover superior logic than the basic explanation.

— Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist)

To getting degrees hasn't importance. Importance is your learning passion for new implementations.

— Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist)

Children are educated by what the grown-up is, and not by his talk.

— Carl Jung

The primal and the best education start from family.

— Mak Kazeronnie

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

— Muriel Spark

They know enough who know how to learn.

— Henry Brooks Adams

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

— Mark Twain

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

— Maria Montessori

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

— Abraham Lincoln

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

— milken lowell

The future belongs to the educated.

— milken lowell

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

— milken lowell

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Yes, recognition is a powerful motivator—to those who receive it as well as those who observe it.

— milken lowell

In every endeavor, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

— milken lowell

With physical and financial capital having been replaced by human capital as the economy’s driving force, the knowledge, skills and experience of people have become this country’s scarce resource.

— milken lowell

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

— Albert Einstein

A child who goes to school but learns nothing is like an anchor that is always in the sea yet doesn’t learn to swim. - Vikrant Parsai

— Unknown, Source

A man cannot feel the worth of a woman who doesn't know how to respect herself.

— Source Unknown