Education Quotes

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I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

- Abraham Lincoln

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

- Tryon Edwards

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

- Denis Waitley

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

- Carl Sagan

The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner.

- Paulo Freire

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

- Parker J. Palmer

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course -- because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

- Alice Miller

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

- Audre Lorde

On the first day of school, my children said to me, "Aren't you glad that our education's free?"

- Erma Bombeck

I'm interested in learning that's motivated by reverence for life, that's motivated by a desire to learn skills, to learn new things that help us to better contribute to our own well-being and the well-being of others. And what fills me with great sadness is any learning that I see motivated by coercion.

- Marshall Rosenberg

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

- Parker J. Palmer

The giving of love is an education in itself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

- Margaret Mead

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

- Albert Einstein

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

- Oprah Winfrey

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

- Doug Larson

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Malcolm Forbes

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

- Alexander Pope