Education Quotes

"The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write" "The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves" "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." "The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today" "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it" "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil." "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." "The first essential for the child’s development is concentration." "The child should live in an environment of beauty." "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit" "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry"