Children And Education Quotes:

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

- Sidney Sugarman

topic: Teacher, Children, Thinking, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

- Ezra Pound

source: ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

topic: Education, Real, Learning, Primary Education, Children And Education

Learning never exhausts the mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teaching, Mislead Us, Student Learning

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Education, Children, Learning, Unschooling, Self Education

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Teacher, Character, Inspirational Character, Inspirational Education

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

source: "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Lying, Learning, Students And Education, What Is Education

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

- James Dewar

topic: Business, Mind, Function, Alcoholics Anonymous, Open Mindedness

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

- William Haley

topic: Girl, School, Learning, Intelligence And Education, Leaving School

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Education

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

- Brigham Young

topic: Family, Education, Women, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Feminist

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Character, Goal, Good Character, Inspirational Character

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Teacher Student, Student Learning

No one can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

topic: Education, Teacher, Knowledge, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

- Claus Moser, Baron Moser

topic: Inspirational, Ignorance, Doe, Inspirational Educational, Learning English

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Education, Children, Learning, Homeschooling, Children And Education

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Sympathy, Education, Children, Inspirational Teacher, Sympathy For A Friend

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Graduation, Education, Memorable, Winni The Pooh, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Education, Hippie, Teaching, Liberal Education, Development Of Society

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

- Plato

topic: Children, Teaching, Mind, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

- Wendell Phillips

topic: Education, Struggle, World, Children And Education, Early Education

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Liberal Education, Teacher Student

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

- Alexandre Dumas

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Education, Children, Stupid, Learning Math, Homeschooling

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Children And Education

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

source: Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

topic: Learning, Mind, Function, Alcoholics Anonymous, Parachutes

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

source: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Student

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

- Vladimir Lenin

topic: Inspirational, Errors, Done, Learning By Doing, Teacher Student

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Nature, Children, Accountability, Moral Society, Wildlife Conservation

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Education, Teaching, Men, Children And Education, Early Education

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

- Jean Piaget

topic: Inspirational, Education, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

- Maria Montessori

topic: Education, Children, Tests, Children And Education, Correctness

When one teaches, two learn.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Education, Two, Teach, Children And Education, Teaching And Education

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Children, School, Carpe Diem, Music Culture, Music In Schools

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Children And Education, Children Education

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Education, Wisdom, School, Children And Education, Educational Change