Education Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

— Hesketh Pearson

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all,…

— H. L. Mencken

“All through school, we are shown that making a mistake is a bad thing, something for which we are downgraded. This reveals how little…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

— Anonymous

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.

— Cherie Carter-Scott

“The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes: not…

— Austin Osman Spare

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

— Anonymous

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately…

— Ezra Pound

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

— Samuel Johnson

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

— Salman Rushdie

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

— James Russell Lowell