Education Quotes

• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

• Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-�-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

• The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

• The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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

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

• 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 know and what you don't.

• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

• Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

• Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

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

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