| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. |
Henry Brooks Adams | 1838 – 1918 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do? |
Iain Banks | 1954 – 2013 | Use of weapons |
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! |
Richard P. Feynman | 1918 – 1988 | |
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
Aristotle | 384 – 322 BC | |
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
Henry Brooks Adams | 1838 – 1918 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
My dear young fellow,’ the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, ‘there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.’ |
Roald Dahl | 1916 – 1990 | James and the giant peach |
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. |
Mark Twain | 1835 – 1910 | |
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. |
Lord Brougham | 1778 – 1868 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. |
Socrates | c. 469 – 399 BC | |
Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. |
Lord Chesterfield | 1694 – 1773 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact. |
Carl Sagan | 1934 – 1996 | |
The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so. |
Josh Billings | 1818 – 1885 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. |
Sydney Smith | 1771 – 1845 | |
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a ‘child of Muslim parents’ will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so. |
Richard Dawkins | born 1941 | The God Delusion |
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803 – 1882 | |
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. |
Berenice Abbott | 1898 – 1991 | |
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. |
Richard P. Feynman | 1918 – 1988 | |
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. |
Paul Klee | 1879 – 1940 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. |
Richard Dawkins | born 1941 | The God Delusion |
Only the educated are free. |
Epictetus | c. 55 – 135 | |
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | |
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? |
George W. Bush | born 1946 | |
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 – 1519 | |
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. |
William Ralph Inge | 1860 – 1954 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. |
Malcolm Forbes | 1919 – 1990 |