Educational Quotes

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Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. — David P. Gardner
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I… — Winston Churchill
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need. — Elbert Hubbard
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach. — John Amos Comenius
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences. — John Dewey
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he… — Soren Kierkegaard
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students. — Alfie Kohn
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment. — Philibert Joseph Roux
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon… — Helen Keller
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about… — Jonathan Kozol
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my… — Haim Ginott
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable… — Confucius
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function. — Aristotle
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle. — Aristotle
We must become just be doing just acts. — Aristotle
It is no easy task to be good. — Aristotle
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. — Aristotle

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