Hi everyone here I have collected some GREAT quotes on EDUCATION from the different book and sites. Hope you will like and enjoy with it. Let’s go through it.
1. Education does not mean
teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave
as they do not behave.
John Ruskin
2. He who can, do. He, who
cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
3. Education is the most
powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
4. “The mediocre teacher
tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great
teacher inspires.”
—William Arthur Ward
5. The whole purpose of
education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
6. Education is what remains
when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile, Lord Halifax
7. The great aim of education
is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
8. Education...has produced a
vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. Trevelyan
9. The foundation of every
state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes
10.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has
been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
11.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
12.
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a
fire.”
—William Butler Yeats
13.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life
itself.
John Dewey
14.
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is
through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a
son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine that a child of farm
workers can become the president of a nation.”
—Nelson Mandela
15.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
16.
When a man’s education is finished, he is finished.
E. A. Filene
17.
Life at a university with its intellectual and inconclusive
discussions at the postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the
real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Sir Paul Chambers
18.
“The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put
into it that counts, but how much it digests.”
—A.J. Nock
19.
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve
me and I’ll understand.”
— Confucius
20.
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds
pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
21.
“Children need models rather than critics.”
—Joseph Joubert
22. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
23.
He who never doubts doesn't know anything.
Spanish proverb
24.
Ye can lead a man up to the university but ye can’t make him
think.
Finley Peter Dunne
25.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James,
26.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have of times no
connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
William Cowper
27.
Every person is a fool in somebody’s opinion.
Spanish Proverb
28.
Learn from the mistakes of others; you can never live long
enough to make them all yourself.
John Luther
29.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann
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