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Education is not filling a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats
Educational Quotes and Words of Wisdom for Homeschoolers
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to
enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them
how to make a life. ~Author Unknown
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something
that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker
Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should
be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic -
Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
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