Educational Quotes

  • Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin
  • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana
  • Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~ Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
  • Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. ~ Plato
  • It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts...it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. ~ Robert Hucthins
  • If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~ Allan Bloom
  • Education is too important to be left solely to educators. ~ Francis Keppel
  • You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ~ Galileo Galilei - Italian physicist and astronomer
  • Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. ~ William B Yeats - poet
  • Learning makes a man fit company for himself ~ Anonymous
  • The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. ~ Jean Piaget - Swiss cognitive psychologist
  • Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions. ~ William Allin
  • If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Andy McIntyre