Quotes about Education

We learn from failure, not from success!

Bram Stoker

There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

You must learn... to see what you are looking at.

Christopher Paolini

Give a man a fire and he`s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he`s warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

No such thing as bad students, only bad teacher.

The Karate Kid (movie)

People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

Paulo Coelho

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Neil Gaiman

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has.

Jerome David Salinger

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Khaled Hosseini

Ignoring isn`t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Margaret Atwood

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

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

Margaret Mead

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