Meaningful quotes about education? ?

Question

looking for quotations or sayings on education

Answer 1

   Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

~ by Martin H. Fischer

   If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people

~ by Chinese proverb

Answer 2

Sow a thought and you reap an action

Sow an action and you reap a habit

Sow a habit and you reap a character

Sow a character and you reap a destiny

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Answer 3

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Bill Beattie

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.George Santayana

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Pete Seeger

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Answer 4

Pink Floyd  says it best

We don'tnt need no education we don'tnt need no thought control

no dark sarcasum in the class room hey teachers leave those kids along   all in all your just another brick in the wall

Answer 5

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

    George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

    Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.