Proverbs and quotes about education.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A tree, a religion, a school, and parents are judged by the fruits they produce.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?Nicholas Johnson
Any curriculum will be pedagogically ineffective if it consists of a lecturer yammering in front of a blackboard, or a textbook that students highlight with a yellow marker. People understand concepts only when they are forced to think them through, to discuss them with others, and to use them to solve problems.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Better untaught than ill taught.It is better not to learn something than to learn it badly.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.Margaret Mead
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.Richard Dawkins
Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.Plato
Don't give a child a fish but show him how to fish.Mao Zedong
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Education is what is left after you have forgotten all you have learned.(unknown author)
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.Georges Clemenceau
Few things offer greater return on less investment than praise.Bill Walsh
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree.
From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
He teaches ill, who teaches all.A good teacher should not teach everything but let students discover some things for themselves.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.P.J. O'Rourke
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein'.Stephen Hawking
If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.Mahatma Gandhi
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.Noam Chomsky
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.Albert Edward Wiggam
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristoteles
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.Maya Angelou
It seems ridiculous to me that people are so afraid that their children are going to miss a month of learning. How about using this month to teach them how to plant, cook, do taxes, basic first aid, handle stress, critical thinking, etc. Not all learning is done in a classroom.Mohamad Safa
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.Alexander Pope
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
Knowledge is power.
Learn to walk before you run.You need experience before you can do something that is difficult.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.Education is something you will keep forever.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Money spent on brain is never spent in vain.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.Mark Twain
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.Nelson Mandela
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.Kofi Annan
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.Diane Ackerman
Practice makes perfect.You get better at a job by repeating it several times.
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.P.J. O'Rourke
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.Alexander Pope
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.Things that are easy to learn can be easy to forget as well.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.If you don't punish a child for mistakes, you will spoil his character.
Statler: You think this show is educational?(unknown author)
Waldorf: Yes it will drive people to read books.
Source: The Muppet Show
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.Ken Robinson
The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.Chuck Palahniuk
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