Educational Quotes And Sayings

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“Education‘s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” 
– Malcolm Forbes

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
– Marilyn Vos Savant

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.  What you gain at one end you lose at the other.  It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail.  It won’t fatten the dog.”
– Mark Twain

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

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
– Mark Twain

“I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.  Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“The pupil can only educate himself.  Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God‘s vessels.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”
– Nicholas Murray Butler

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”
– Niels Bohr

“You study hard, always do your best, and look what happens.”
– Notorious Movie

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” 
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I may have said the same thing before… But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.”
– Paul Chambers

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.”
– Paul Karl Feyerabend

“If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education”…. Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual — a slow-motion erosion of America’s relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis … deals a severe blow to education across the board…. We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.”
– Paul Krugman

“Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.” 
– Perelman

“Do not train children in learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
– Plato

“That’s what education should be … the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn’t be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn’t facing the right way.”
– Plato

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
– Plato

“Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.” 
– Publilius Syrus

“Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.”
– R. Verdi

“Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.” 
– R.D. Clyde

“I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Mentoring is all about people — it’s about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated — concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It’ll be a disaster.”
– Rene Carayol

“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
– Richard David Bach

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