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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius...
Arthur Conan Doyle
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadter
Do not judge my intelligence by the answers I give, but instead by the questions I ask.
Mark McGranaghan
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
John Rogers
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
Margaret Mead
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerhohm
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Madeleine L'Engle
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Al Capp
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome S. Bruner
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
John Updike
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.
Mark Twain
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Florence King
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing.
Madeline Hunter
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
Lee Iacocca
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Darlington Morley
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
Stephen Hawking
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Decouvertes
I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
Elie Wiesel
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
Arthur Koestler
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
G.C. Lichtenberg
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
John Stuart Mill
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards
Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.
Ann Lieberman
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.
James Beattie
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
Ernest Boyer
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
Lord Chesterfield
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Simply being different isn't wrong. Don't try to be a duckling if you're born to be a swan.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Teachers should be able to teach subjects, not manuals merely.
Horace Mann
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...
Sir William Osler
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
Carl R. Rogers
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a Sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Albert Einstein
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
Helen Hayes
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Edison
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
William Osler
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
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