Education Quote by John W. Gardner

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

— Akiane Kramarik

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

— Helen DeWitt

Nature is stronger than education.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Education is sown in children but must be cultivated all life long.

— Paul Carvel

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

— Maria Montessori

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals.…

— Sai Baba

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

— Loretta Lynn

One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen…

— Scott D. Anthony

I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of…

— John Taylor Gatto

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving…

— Quentin Crisp

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

— Benjamin Carson

The problem with education is school.

— Mark Twain