Homeschool and Education Quotes

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue,

Karl Arbeiter: former teacher of Albert Einstein

You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? --pauses to light cigarette.--No apti

Aristotle

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Matthew Arnold

...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Roger Ascham

I said how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Richard David Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Russell Baker

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Clay P. Bedford

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Ruth Benedict

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Emily Blackwell

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Smiley Blanton

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Allan Bloom

Education is the movement from darkness to light."

Derek Curtis Bok

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Jerome S. Bruner

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Buddha

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Samuel Butler

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

Al Capp

Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

William Ellery Channing

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

James Charlton

Fortunately for us, Japan is opening its first business school in the near future. This is likely to produce a measurable drop in Japanese productivity.

G.K. Chesterton

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Cicero

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 -- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

Bishop Mandell Creighton

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

John Cotton Dana

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

John Dewey

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

Diogenes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Alexandre Dumas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tyron Edwards

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Tyrone Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Elliot Wayne Eisner

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him

Ignacio Estrada

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Richard Fenyman

What did you ask at school today?

Paul Karl Feyerabend

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Richard Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the differ

Martin H. Fischer

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

Henry Ford

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the singl

Anatole France

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.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no s

Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic.

Howard Gardner

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problem

John W. Gardner

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do

Mildred & Victor Goertzel

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own bod

Emma Goldman

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Paul E. Gray

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Sir William Haley

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

William Hamilton

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

Napoleon Hill

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

John Holt

...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to

Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

R.S. Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Joseph Joubert

To teach is to learn twice.

John F. Kennedy

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once then he's in.

Florence King

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Robert E. Lee

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Madeleine L'Engle

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Doris Lessing

"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 cho

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Roger Lewin

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

John Lubbock

Here are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.

Paul MacCready

The only big ideas I've ever had have come from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled, by it someone else - at school, at work, watching television.

Dudley Field Malone

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Groucho Marx

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

H.L. Mecken

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H.L. Mencken

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are s

School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense amd common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long

Richard Mitchell

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some dif

Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Ashley Montagu

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Maria Montessori

And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total devel

Robert Morely

Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I'll show you a bully and a bore.

Charles Morgan

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Sir Clause Moser

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

H.H. Munro

You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Patricia Neal

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

John Osborne

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Sidney Joseph Perelman

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century

Petronius

I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life.

Jean Piaget

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

J.B. Priestley

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Dian Ravitch

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

Giles Sutherland Rich

One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.

Beah Richards

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Frederick William Robertson

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Arthur Schomburg

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .

Charles Schulz

Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.

Sir Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Seneca

Men learn while they teach.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;/ But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Lillian Smith

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Irving Stone

At the Cole School, where they had community singing every morning the teacher noticed that Jack London remained silent. She asked him why. He replied that she didn't know how to sing, that she would spoil his voice because she flatted. The teacher dispat

Igor Stravinsky

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Henry David Thoreau

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Mary Kay Utech

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.

Oscar

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

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.