Inspirational Quotes About Education

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A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918
American historian
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Joseph Addison 1672-1719
English essayist, poet & politician
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Aeschylus 525BC- 456BC
Ancient Greek dramatist
It is always the season for the old to learn.

Amos Bronson Alcott 1799-1888
American teacher, writer & reformer
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Eric Allen
Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I'm learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.

Amma 1953
Indian Hindu spiritual leader
Spirituality is not an escape from life. It is turning inwards so that one may know oneself. Spirituality is the science that teaches one to understand life in greater depth. It is management of the mind.

Andre-Marie Ampere 1775-1836
French physicist, mathematician & inventor
My father.. never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon’s natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.

Maya Angelou 1928-2014
American memoirist & poet
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
All men by nature desire knowledge.

Educating the mind, without educating the heart, is no education at all.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is the best provision for old age.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them... we learn by doing them!

If you would understand anything... observe its beginning and its development.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The more you know... the more you know you don't know.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.

Isaac Asimov 1920-1992
Russian-American author, writer & professor
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

Isaac Asimov 1920-1992
Russian-American author, writer & professor
Education is not something you can finish.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka but 'That's funny...'

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

David Attenborough 1926
British broadcaster & biologist
Education is not a matter of getting facts and sowing them within brains, but that it is an attitude of mind that you teach children to find out for themselves.

St Augustine 354-430
Algerian bishop & theologian
I learned most, not from those who taught me, but from those who talked with me.

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Francis Bacon 1561-1626
English philosopher, essayist & statesman
For also knowledge itself is power.

Natural abilities are like natural plants... they need pruning by study.

P. T. Barnum 1810-1891
American showman, businessman & politician
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Bashar-Darryl Anka 1951
Canadian channeller & film producer
You can learn new ideas, ideas that have higher energy to them. When you learn how to see things in new ways and they bring higher energy, then things are easy - the Universe moves easily, you can change things quickly, you can create things in your life, attract things in your life… quickly, smoothly.

Clay P. Bedford
You can teach a student a lesson for a day... But if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887
American congregationalist clergyman
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
German composer & pianist
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine.

Ezra Taft Benson 1899-1994
American farmer, government official & LDS religious leader
It is a mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness.

Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life – and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read, what not to see, or, what not to listen to.

Polly Berrien Berends 1939-2017
American author, educator & activist
The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

Black Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

W. E. B. Du Bois 1868-1963
American sociologist, historian & activist
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769–1821
French Emperor & military leader
History is... The version of past events, that people have decided to agree on.

Show me a family of readers... And I will show you the people who move the world.

Bono (Paul Hewson) 1960
Irish singer-songwriter & activist
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986
Argentine writer, essayist & poet
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.

Richard Branson 1950
English business magnate
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Dan Brown 1964
American author
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books, books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

My sincere hope is that ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, ‘Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.’

Time is a river, and books are boats.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

Emilie Buchwald 1935
Austrian editor & author
Children are made readers in the laps of their parents.

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it... Unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Teach this triple truth to all: a generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are things which renew humanity.

Edmund Burke 1729-1797
Irish statesman & philosopher
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924
British-American novelist & playwright
To be able to learn things quickly isn’t everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.

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Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
The primary lesson of life is to learn to love.

There is always something new and wonderful to learn and absorb.

You never stop learning in this life.

Sarah Caldwell 1924-2006
American opera conductor & stage director
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. You will be grateful you did.

Julia Cameron 1948
American teacher, author & artist
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time.

Jack Canfield 1944
American author & motivational speaker
I think there is too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required course, rather than pursuing their passion.

George Carlin 1937-2008
American stand-up comedian & social critic
Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach then to question everything.

George Carlin 1937-2008
American stand-up comedian & social critic
The value of an education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us.

Mary Ellen Chase 1887-1973
American educator & author
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1860-1904
Russian playwright & writer
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Deepak Chopra 1946
Indian-American author
I teach people that, no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence. If you just stay within your centre.

Winston Churchill 1874-1965
British Prime Minister
Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC-43BC
Italian poet, philosopher & orator
Natural ability without education has oftener raised men to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Sandra Cisneros 1954
American author
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school, but because my mother took me to the library.

St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153
French abbot & co-founder of Knights Templar
Believe one who knows; you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from Masters.

Sylvia Clare
Author, speaker & poet
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skill.

Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.

Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008
British science fiction writer
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40, and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

Beverly Cleary 1916–2021
American children’s author
Children should learn that reading is a pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Paulo Coelho 1947
Brazilian author
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.”

Confucius 551BC-479BC
Chinese philosopher & politician
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Billy Connolly 1942
Scottish comedian, actor, television presenter & author
People often say that football and boxing are the ways our of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.

When I was an unhappy little boy, going to the library changed my life. It may even have saved it. Amazing as it sounds, literature can do that for you. Books are your ticket to the whole world. They’re a free ticket to the entire earth.

Linda Conway
It is not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.

Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933
American 30th President of USA
School is not the end but only the beginning of education.

You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.

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Roald Dahl 1916-1990
British author
Don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Oh, books, what books they used to know
Those children living long ago
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray
Go throw your TV set away
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-days sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemmingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

There is little point teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

“You seemed so far away,” Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. “Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings,” Matilda said. “It was wonderful.”

Anthony J. D’Angelo
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you’ll never cease to grow.

Learn not only to find what you life, learn to like what you find.

Robertson Davies 1913-1995
Canadian author, playwright & journalist
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Esther Davis-Thompson
Author
Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the wisdom is in the trees, some of the wisdom is with the animals. Some of the wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the wisdom is in our minds. All of the wisdom is from the Spirit of God.

Clarence Day 1874-1935
American author & cartoonist
Information’s pretty thin stuff, unless mixed with experience.

Rene Descartes 1596-1650
French mathematician & philosopher
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

John Dewey 1859-1952
American philosopher, psychologist & educational reformer
Education is not preparation for life.. Education is life itself.

Kate DiCamillo 1964
American author
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Charles M. Dickinson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to Awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
American poet
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.

Ernest Dimnet 1866-1954
French priest, writer & lecturer
Children have to be educated, but they also have to be left to educate themselves.

Walt Disney 1901–1966
American animator & film producer
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
British Prime Minister
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

There is no education like adversity.

Mark Van Doren 1894-1972
American poet, writer & critic
The art of teaching is.. The art of assisting discovery.

Frederick Douglas 1818-1895
American social reformer, orator & writer
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Be a student.. By staying open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone.

Once you see a child’s self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

The wisest and most profound teachings on the planet today. (talking about Abraham-Hicks)

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

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Umberto Eco 1932-2016
Italian medievalist, philosopher & novelist
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Arthur Eddington 1882-1944
English astronomer, physicist & mathematician
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Marian Wright Edelman 1939
American activist for civil & children’s rights
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know now and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.

Play is the highest form of research.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The only thing you absolutely have to know is the way to the library.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880
English novelist & poet
Those who trust us educate us.

Len Elmore 1952
American basketball player, sportscaster & lawyer
My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Epictetus 55-135
Greek stoic philosopher
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Ignacio Estrada 1946-2024
American teacher & ventriloquist
If a child can’t learn the way we teach.. Maybe we should teach the way they learn.

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Richard Feynman 1918-1988
American theoretical physicist
Being wrong isn’t a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.

Study hard what interest you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.

Martin Henry Fischer 1879-1962
German-American physician & author
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

The world is your school.

Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880
French novelist
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Malcolm Forbes 1919-1990
American politician & publisher
Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind, with an open one.

Paula Fox 1923-2017
American author
Literature is the province of imagination and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an Awakener.

Anatole France 1844-1924
French poet, journalist & novelist
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
American writer, statesman & founding father
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
American writer, statesman & founding father
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Robert Frost 1874-1963
American poet
I have never started a poem whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983
American architect, systems theorist & writer
I would like to know why it is that we have disregarded all children’s significantly spontaneous and comprehensive curiosity. Nothing seems to be more prominent about human life that its wanting to understand all and put everything together.

The National Science Foundation asked the great ‘breakthrough’ scientists what they felt to be the most dominantly favourable factor in their educational experience. The answer was almost uniformly: Intimate association with a great, inspiring teacher.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Margaret Fuller 1810-1850
American journalist & editor
Today a reader.. Tomorrow a leader.

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Neil Gaiman 1960
English author
A book is a dream that you can hold in your hand.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

Galileo 1564-1642
Italian astronomer & physicist
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Indian leader, activist & lawyer
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

There is no school equal to a decent home, and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Shakti Gawain 1948-2018
American spiritual author
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, and inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

In education the life of the mind proceeds gradually from scientific experiments to intellectual theories, to spiritual feeling, and then to God.

The light of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Neville Goddard 1905-1972
Barbadian-American author, speaker & mystic
Where knowledge ends.. Feeling and imagination begin.

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890
Dutch artist
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Emma Goldman 1869-1940
Lithuanian political activist & writer
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Trina Graves 1961
English Spiritual poet & quote anthologist

I told of how we all have a story
To share with each other, to inspire
Individuals following our paths
In Unity Consciousness we go Higher

With compassion for humanity
And unconditional Love for all
We re-discover our Divinity
The veil to all knowledge will fall

quote from poem: The Answers Are Within

Trina Graves 1961
English Spiritual poet & quote anthologist

If eloquence through the written word
Is what you came here to do
Share your passion with the world
Don’t die with your book still in you.

quote from poem: Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You

Pam Grout 1956
American author & writer
Physicists over the past one hundred years have discovered that the field connects all of us, and that the reason we control our lives is because every thought we have is an energy wave that affects everything in the Universe.

Ursula Le Guin 1929
American author
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you are fifty. Though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.

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HA-Tony Neate
English Channeller & author
History is there to be learned from and not lived to.

HA-Tony Neate
English Channeller & author
The purpose of any channelling is not to tell or to instruct, but to stimulate.. To create new depths and new areas of thinking.

What is of importance in channelling is that the person contacts a higher level of creative thought. This enables more advanced teachings and philosophies to be offered to the planet because the evolution of a planet, both individually and collectively, is on-going.

Alex Haley 1921-1992
American writer & author
My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read, I loved to read.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Nassim Haramein 1962
Swiss physicist
To be a good scientist, you have to use your heart because that’s where the information comes first.

Stephen Hawking 1942-2018
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist & author
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the Universe exist. Be curious.

Louise L. Hay 1926-2017
American author, speaker & founder of Hay House publishing
Writing is not just recording, it’s releasing and creating.

Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970
American guitarist & singer-songwriter
Knowledge speaks.. But wisdom listens.

Benjamin Hoff 1946
American author
The Masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and know beyond knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894
American physician, poet & polymath
A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

John Caldwell Holt 1923-1985
American author, educator & proponent of homeschooling
By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do – and all we need to do – is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest.

Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them... Children observe, they wonder, they speculate, and they ask themselves questions… If we attempt to control, manipulate, or divert this process, we disturb it. If we continue this long enough, the process stops. The independent scientist in the child disappears.

Gears, twigs, leaves, little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?

It’s not that I feel school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.

Organized education operates on the assumption that children learn only when and only what and because we teach them. That is not true. It is very close to one hundred percent false.

The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive and experimental. He does not merely observe the world around him. He does not shut himself off from the strange, complicated world around him, but tastes it, touches it, hefts it, bends it, breaks it.

To find out how reality works, he works on it. He is bold. He is not afraid of making mistakes. And he is patient. He can tolerate an extraordinary amount of uncertainty, confusion, ignorance, and suspense. .. School is not a place that gives much time, or opportunity, or reward, for this kind of thinking and learning.

There is no difference between living and learning.. it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate.

We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn’t interest us, can keep our minds from wandering? Hardly any.

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t school at all.

When we make a child afraid, we stop learning dead in its tracks.

You learn by doing, there is no other way.

Sidney Hook 1902-1989
American philosopher
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Edward Hopper 1882-1967
American painter & printmaker
No amount of skilful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Harry Houdini 1874-1926
Hugarian-American illusionist & escape artist
My brain is the key that sets my mind free.

Whitney Houston 1963-2012
American singer & actress
I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier. Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be.

written by Michael Masser & Linda Creed

Victor Hugo 1802-1885
French poet, novelist & dramatist
To learn to read is to light fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
English author, poet & philosopher
There’s only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Words can be like x-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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Michael Jackson 1958-2009
American singer-songwriter & dancer
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink – it also consists of the volumes of knowledge written on the human heart, chiseled on the human soul and engraves on the human psyche.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

James Hopwood Jeans 1877-1946
English physicist & astronomer
Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter: we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the ‘Creator and governor of the realm of matter.’

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

Susan Jeffers 1938-2012
American psychologist & author
Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.

Franklin P. Jones 1908-1980
American journalist & humorist
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Joseph Joubert 1754-1824
French moralist & essayist
Children need models rather than critics.

Carl Jung 1875-1961
Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist & author
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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Abdul Kalam 1931-2015
Indian scientist & 11th President of India
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the student ask questions.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Amit Kalantri 1988
Indian author
No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

Garrison Keillor 1942
American author, singer & radio personality
A book is a gift you can open again and again.

John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
35th President of United States
Every child came equipped with an imagination and a box of crayons. We adults need to provide light and space, not walls and restrictions.

Ken Keyes 1921-1995
American personal growth author & lecturer
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

B. B. King 1925-2015
American guitarist, singer-songwriter & record producer
The beautiful thing about learning is.. That no one can take it away from you.

Martin Luther King Jr 1929-1968
American Baptist minister & civil rights activist
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
English journalist, novelist & poet
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
English journalist, novelist & poet
Teach us to delight in simple things.

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
English journalist, novelist & poet
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

L. R. Knost
Author & child development researcher
A lifestyle of reading puts the vast knowledge of the ages into the hands of our children. Exchanging the life-long riches of a love of reading for the temporary value of facts gleaned from required reading lists is a paltry deal, indeed. Encourage reading, yes, but let their hearts, their interests, their imaginations choose their reading material. Whatever momentary facts they need for the next test or quiz can be found just as easily on Google. A passion for reading can only be found in the heart of the child.

Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986
Indian philosopher, writer & spiritual figure
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Kuang-tsu
If you give a man a fish.. He will eat once. If you teach a man to fish.. He will eat for the rest of his life. If you are thinking a year ahead.. Sow seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead.. Plant a tree. If you are thinking one hundred years ahead.. Educate the people. By sowing the seed you harvest once. By planting a tree you will harvest tenfold. By educating the people you will harvest one hundredfold.

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Dalai Lama 1935
14th Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

It is vital that when educating our children’s brains, that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Dalai Lama 1935
14th Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
The time has come to take concrete steps to bring about a real transformation in the ways we educate our future generations. We need to combine both an education of the mind with and education of the heart.

Ann Landers
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

Bruce Lee 1940-1973
Hong-Kong-American martial artist & actor
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Edwin Leibfreed
Poet
The royal road to knowledge, all may win, who seek the Source of life in everything.

Pam Leo
Parent & childbirth educator & author
You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781
German philosopher & writer
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781
German philosopher & writer
What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
American 16th President of United States
The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I haven’t read.

Barry Lopez 1945-2020
American author, essayist & nature writer
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Richard Louv 1949
American author & journalist
Teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing.

John Lubbock 1834-1913
English archaeologist, biologist & author
A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are all excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning, the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar.

We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children – to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

We may sit in a library and yet be in all quarters of the Earth.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Rosamund Lupton 1964
English author
Many people have written eloquently about the power of books, how they educate, elucidate, take you to new cultures, give you new experiences and vantage points, open your heart and mind and pierce your Soul.

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