Yet More Education Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”
– Deborah Meier

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
– Gail Godwin

“Grade school is the snooze button on the clock radio of life.”
– John Rogers

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

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo

“Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.”
– John A. Hannah

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
– Alexander Dumas

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
– Eartha Kitt

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
– Carl Sagan

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
– Dudley Field Malone

“I teach therefore I am.”
– Anonymous

“I think the world is run by C students”
– Al McGuire

“If I were asked … to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville

“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
– Abraham Maslow

“If we always do what we’ve always done, we will get what we’ve always got.”
– Adam Urbanski

“If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.”
– Thumper’s father

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.”
– Lee Iacocca

“In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.”
– Harry Wong

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”
– Mark Twain

“Information cannot replace education.”
– Earl Kiole

“Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting the different results.”
– Albert Einstein

“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Albert Einstein

“It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.”
– Jane Hamilton

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
– Epictetus

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
– Alec Bourne

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