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1. "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Memory

2. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

3. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons

Quotations about: Human

4. "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

John Ciardi

5. "He who can find new wisdom in old knowledge will be a good teacher."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

6. "Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

7. "Education is the fountain that too few people drink from."

Anon.

8. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Anon.

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

9. "Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

10. "Books, the children of the brain."

Jonathan Swift, "A Tale Of A Tub"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

11. "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Quotations about: Life and Death

12. "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Science and Technology

13. "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

14. "Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: God and Religion

15. "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

16. "Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

17. "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

Quotations about: Art and Culture

18. "The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

19. "You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

20. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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21. "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Life and Death

22. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ronald E. Osborn

Quotations about: Various

23. "Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best."

Spanish proverb

24. "Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

Virginia Satir

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age

25. "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

26. "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Jacob Bronowski

Quotations about: Question and Problem

27. "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

John Ruskin

Quotations about: Authority, Government

28. "If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

Ruby Manikan

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

29. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

30. "Experience is the teacher of all things."

Julius Caesar

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

31. "The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired."

Elaine May

32. "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Enid Bagnold, "Autobiography"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

33. "Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric"

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

34. "Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

35. "Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

36. "Education [...] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

G. M. Trevelyan, "English Social History"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

37. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

John Ruskin

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Love

38. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."

James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

39. "An illiterate king is a crowned ass."

English proverb

Quotations about: Authority, Government

40. "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Human

41. "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning"

42. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

43. "Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Aldous Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

44. "It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"

45. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

46. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

Joseph Addison

47. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Denis Waitly

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age

48. "Life is so constructed that we move through different phases and stages, each requiring the skills and wisdom of the previous ones."

Anne Wilson Schaef

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

49. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

50. "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Clarence Thomas

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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