Educational Quotes And Sayings

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“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” 
– Cicero

“Learning without thought is labor lost.”
– Confucius

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
– David Bly

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
– Derek Bok

“Each book first begins with a little idea.”
– Dick Bruna

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
– Doris Lessing

“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how.”
– Doris Lessing

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
– Edith Ann

“You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
– Edward Abbey

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” 
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
– Edward Everett

“Only the educated are free.”
– Epictetus

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
– Erich Fromm

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

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” 
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”
– G. K. Chesterton

“Without a gentle contempt for education, no gentleman’s education is complete.”
– G. K. Chesterton

“Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
– G. M. Trevelyan

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
– G.M. Trevelyan

“My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.”
– Gabriel Mann

“The University Library is dedicated to the needs of its diverse communities on the campus, its advocacy and support of appropriate technology, the excellence of its collections, and the commitment of its staff to the very highest ideals of library practice.”
– Gary E. Strong

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” 
– George Bernard Shaw

“College mostly makes people like bladders–just good for nothing but t’hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.”
– George Eliot

“Those who trust us educate us.”
– George Eliot

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
– George Santayana

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
– Groucho Marx

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H.G. Wells

“Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.”
– Heinrich Heine

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