Education Quotes

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students.”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read.”

“The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.”

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.”

“The end of all education should surely be service to others.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”