35 Thought Provoking Education Quotes
posted by John on October 20th, 2008
Hope you enjoy reading this list as much as I did putting it together!
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Hector Berlioz
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. ~Niels Bohr
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
- What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw
- Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~Perelman
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ~Jim Rohn
- Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce
- In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
- The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ~Carl Rogers
- A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ~James B. Stockdale
- A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
- The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ~Cicero
- Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
- I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates
- Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~Sir William Haley
- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. ~Lee Iacocca
- The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. ~Joseph Campbell
- Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. ~W. B. Yeats
- A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. ~Linnaeus
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~Confucius
- The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
- 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 may be engaged in. ~Abraham Lincoln
- Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it. — Soren Kierkegaard
- The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller
- Nothing is ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Gandhi
- I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. — Dudley Field Malone
- How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. — Henry David Thoreau
- Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin
- How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. — Alexander Dumas
- If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Abraham Maslow
- There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson
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October 20th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
#18 - if this were the case, all actors would be seen as crazy and football players would be useless…
October 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Ralph Emerson isn’t quite right in this one (27). Have you ever been to a fast food restaurant?
October 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Tre you’re right on the money.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Tre: #18 applies to a rational world, with the implication that this is not one, the examples of actors and football players being relevant.
Dorius: # 27 is correct: in a fast food restaurant something is done, nothing is achieved.
Most likely those being quoted are, intentionally or unintentionally, making use of #16.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Tre,
Your point is…..?
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 am
Tre: I think you missed the whole point of that.
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward”
Being a teacher is not all about knowing a lot, but being able to reach, motivate and inspire the other person (exactly what most teachers lack). An actor or football player could demonstrate a lot of things and inspire a lot of people, it depends on the person, not the title.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:27 am
On Ghandy, 29
Learn as if you were to live forever.
There is some curious transcendence implied: one attracting the other.
(Not having to do with the body though.)
October 25th, 2008 at 2:14 am
The 7th is something I wish everybody becomes able to understand it. We should keep our selves going if we really wish to acquire the true education. Schooling and education are two different things.
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October 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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October 26th, 2008 at 6:20 am
The actor and the football player can be considered teachers. We are teaching each other things all the time.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
ha ha! #18 IS true then
October 27th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Brilliant!!! Great, valuable and timeless quotes by an excellent selection of geniuses.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Hector Berlioz
Is one of the funniest quotes I have ever read.
Is the person who posted this self educated?
October 27th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
i like how tre says, “if this were the case, all actors would be seen as crazy and football players would be useless…” and pretty much proves that #9 is right on the money.
the irony is tre is too dumb to realize how right he is about what he just said
October 27th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
To most of the posters, as stated, you must read, and comprehend, #16.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:11 am
hello
October 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
#26 just what u.s.a. needs most.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
If many school board members read this, they would be in a state of confusion for the rest of their terms.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Here’s one, I don’t know where I picked it up but it rings of truth:
A college degree doesn’t make you smart, it makes you educated.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Actors ARE actually crazy and football players ARE useless. Both only exist for entertainment purposes. Both strive with intentions that are based around themselves alone. Im not doubting they inspire people, but only a handful have true passion to follow such roads, everybody else is just accepting false values. It seems that most of said people lack compassion for humanity as well as the well being for this planet they so arrogantly live on. But thats nothing new right, its the unsaid american way, to care only about yourself. The people who live like that, as if the world was made for them, truly have NO self worth. We need to see life in every aspect as a two way street now and never take it for granet or one day we will lose it all, going down without a fight but securing a prideless and shameful demise for our species . And if you think im talking out my ass and decided already that I dont know what im talking, you always have football.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
I think some people (Hey, Caleb, edu) missed the point of what I was saying. I believe Lacocca’s message was that in a rational society, education and knowledge would be the highest pursuits, so those who pass it on to younger generations as teachers (by trade) would be the most respected members of society. The truth of that statement demonstrates how backwards our current values are, where the most respected members of society are entertainers (i.e. actors and football players), while teachers are often barely scraping by and public schools are like ruined labor camps. Why is our culture like this? Who knows. It’s true that anyone can teach or inspire others, but if our society were completely rational in the way Lacocca describes, entertainers would not be the ones to do it.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:59 am
entertainers and sportsmen have existed since the very fist human being got bored. It is this superficial society thats numb and only excited by the muscular and beautiful thats degrading the honor it is to be a and educator and inspiration in other fields. man, mathematician aint geeks, and designers aint a bunch of loophole looneys. Its really funny that we think the best lines are spoken by an actor whereas it was just a mimicry of the real thing.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Great quotes, thanks!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Many of the quotations included in this list are spurious, that is they have been credited to people who did not actually say or write those words. For example, the quotations from Gandhi and Socrates are spurious. It is a basic obligation of scholarship to credit quotations to their actual source. Thus this website is an embarrassment, not an inspiration.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
photoshopped!
November 6th, 2008 at 8:08 am
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Hope you enjoy reading this list as much as I did putting it together!…
November 7th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Brilliant - I am training as a Psychologist and I may be able to use some of these
Notably the quote from Abraham Maslow
Thank you for these
November 9th, 2008 at 10:02 am
@Jeremy: I Googled the quotations from Ghandi and Socrates. Apparently several people are posting these spurious quotes. I guess the internet is truly a bad source for information.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Jeremy… you seem to be representing the “schooling” side rather than the “education” side Mark Twain [definitely, I might add] discussed.
Which is more important; the dissemination of potentially unsourced ideas, or following rules imposed by “scholars?”
November 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Furthermore, I think the word you’re looking for is “apocryphal…” spurious implies that these attributed sayings have been proven false, which is obviously inaccurate, since they wouldn’t be *attributed* in that case.
I mean, can anybody definitely prove if Socrates said or did not say one thing or another?
November 13th, 2008 at 8:03 am
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November 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
ever quote i read i came away with something new,…
November 14th, 2008 at 11:16 am
In regard to Tre’s second posting, I completely understand where you are coming from and think it is truly pathetic that the “entertainers” of our society are admired more by much of the public. Sadly, our universities which should be battling this mind set, are actually encouraging it by offering thousands upon thousands of dollars in scholarships to people who have no real interest or desire for knowledge or education (most college football/ basketball players). It infuriates me sometimes that this still goes on& the boards justify it by boasting about the amount of money these programs supposedly bring to the schools. Meanwhile… arts programs still get cut& gifted poor kids who can’t play basketball find it difficult to get college funds- let alone a free ride. Yeah- America!!! Ugh.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
um.. can someone enlighten me as to how # 35 pertains to education?
November 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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November 16th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Education opened my mind, and it continues to teach & understand.
I like many of the quotes.
November 16th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Damn you, Scott! I was going to call “photoshopped” but you beat me to it
November 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Haha, these quotes are both thought provoking and funny.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Very thought provoking, great quotes from some of the best minds our planet has seen. Each seems to ring a truth from the lives they lived and the work they did. Its interesting see a convergence of thought from philosophers, politicians, artists and scientists. They all seem to have been very well educated and smart as well.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
fantastic quotes. Tre… your musings elicit pure and unadulterated truth. Before our world can truly advance, our societies must shed the preconceptions of fame and fortune that have been embedded in the minds of the young, and expose the true otiose nature of fame and fortune.
November 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
“Tre Says:
October 20th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
#18 - if this were the case, all actors would be seen as crazy and football players would be useless…”
football players are useless…as are actors. they pass our time, they don’t make us better.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:32 am
I love these quotes. They are from the most intelligent people to ever exist. What more could you ever ask for! I especially love # 16, Socrates was a genius. I wish I could have known him.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
and another great one, from my friend Richard, frequently drunk and not universally recognised as one of the great thinkers:
Some people will believe anything as long as it doesn’t have a scientific basis’
December 7th, 2008 at 6:55 am
These are some really cool stuff. I just love doing it.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:11 am
hola como estan espero que bien y cuidanse mucho saludes bye
December 13th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Check out quotes by Thomas Huxley, such as:
The improver of natural knowledge refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
On the adviseableness of improving natural knowledge, 1866
December 17th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
” Just cause The Man kicked you out of college , doesn’t mean you can’t get your learn on! Go get yourself some of that History Channel.”