Education Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

— Joshua Reynolds

If teachers can't teach every subject, why do students have to Iearn them all?

— Anonymous

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

— Richard DuFour

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is…

— Sydney J. Harris

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

— Paul Q. Hirst

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time…that is to train the student to be a proper…

— John Henrik Clarke

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

— Leo Tolstoy

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

— Martin Dansky