Quotes - Education and Teachers

• The purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place to spend one’s leisure.
• The art of teaching is the art of assisting in discovery.
• Books are food for the brain.
• Life is well spent when you develop a love of learning.
• The more that you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you’ll go.
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
• Pay attention and you will learn something new every day of your life.
• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.
• Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study, and also by faith.
• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
• Live always in the best company when you read.
• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
• If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
• The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
• You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself.
• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
• Educating the mind without educating the soul is not education at all.
• Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself.
• Teachers Make a Difference
• To teach is to learn twice.
• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow!
• Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading the fine print.
• The greatest of success for a teacher is to be able to say: The children are now working as if I did not exist.
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.
• The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man it forms.
• A man is but what he knoweth.
• He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn, is in great danger.
• Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
• There is no darkness but ignorance.
• The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things but enjoy them.
• Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education.
• It is only the ignorant who despise education.
• We shall never see the time when we shall not need to be taught.
• ‘Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
• Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
• A man is not paid for having brains, but for using them.
• Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.
• Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.
• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.
• Fortune favors the best prepared people.
• The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
• If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.
• Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
• Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives you the test first and lesson afterwards.
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates