Ariel and Will Durant:

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Bill Beattie:
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.

Dean William R. Inge:

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

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

Finley Peter Dunne:

Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

George Peabody:
Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Gloria Steinem:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what
they are capable of being.

Henry B. Adams:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in
the form of inert facts.

Henry B. Adams:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Steele Commager:

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires
change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and
the ability to satisfy them.

James Baldwin:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have
never failed to imitate them.

John Burroughs:
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier
to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Dewey:
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his
failures as from his successes.

John Dewey:
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Powell:
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Lord Brougham:
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.

Lou Ann Walker:

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your
students to be human beings.

Maria Mitchell:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die
tomorrow.

Maria Montessori:
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us
out of war.

Marian Wright Edelman:

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and
world better than you found it.

Mary Pettibone Poole:

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.

Mohandas K. Gandhi:
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others
without thinking evil of them.

Mortimer Adler:
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue
growing as we continue to live.

Mortimer Adler:
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you.

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

Patricia Neal:
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own
expectations.

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

Rabbinical saying:
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Skill to do comes of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know
it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all
learners, doers and teachers.

Robert Green Ingersoll:

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have
education without common sense.

Roger Lewin:
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Simone Weil:
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Will Durant:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

William Butler Yeats:

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely
uneducated.
Alec Bourne

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 do know and what you don't.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish
what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which
neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because
they didn't.
L. L. Henderson

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires
brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

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

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or
your self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature

of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins (1899 - 1977)

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth
that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant (1885 - 1981)

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison

"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons." Æschylus

"A teacher must give the students something to take home to think about besides
homework." Edith Ann

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
Aristotle

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a
selflessness which links us with all humanity." Lady Nancy Astor

"Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you
know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are
all learners, doers, and teachers." Richard David Bach
"You teach best what you most need to learn." Richard David Bach

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise
of his mind." Jacques Martin Barzun

"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not
really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding,
but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach
than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have
things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not
for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself." R. J. Baughan

"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

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by
creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
Clay P. Bedford

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to
assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.

Literacy is itself is no education.

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for
acquiring learning of any kind.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress

of the country in which it is given.

Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean - Swami Vivekananda

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every
child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only
gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.

Latin Proverb

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
Albert Einstein

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,

and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Newton D. Baker

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own
expectations.
Patricia Neal

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains
so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to
learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry
Brooks Adams

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas Szaz

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren