Quotes about Education

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

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

What is a teacher? I`ll tell you: it isn`t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Paulo Coelho

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Zoltán Kodály

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren