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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Sep 30, 2025
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.