Showing posts with label quotes on education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes on education. Show all posts

Friday, May 21, 2010

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.


Benjamin Disraeli

Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.

Diogenes Laetius

When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.'

Author Unknown

Education should consist of a series of enchantments, each raising the individual to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and kinship with all living things.

J.P Richter

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Chinese Saying

Learning is like rowing upstream:
not to advance is to drop back.

The Simple Life

Education, like the mass of our age's inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it

James A. Garfield

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.

Michelangelo

I am still learning.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.

John W. Gardner

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Charles W. Eliot

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Robin Cook

Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.

William Ellery Channing

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.

Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Publilius Syrus

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Joseph Addison

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


Greek Proverb

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.