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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
Sep 29, 2025
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
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 task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
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.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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 job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.