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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
There are too few teachers in this world, too few people willing to give their hearts and minds to others. There are also too few who will willingly lead others by the hand, and show them how to do things.
It is because of those that will lead and those that will give their hearts and minds to others that we are literate and capable. Their work in the field of education is an inspiration in and of itself.
But just in case, you need some extra spark, here it is, in the form of inspirational educational quotes, all from the best and the brightest.
So enjoy these Inspirational Educational Quotes, which I have compiled for you.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle
Charlotte bronte, the great 19th century novelist, who gave the world jane eyre among other famous works, also knew of the power of education as she explains in one of her famous educational quotes.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertlized by educattion; they grow there firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
For others they taught the world about education by example, as was the case with anne frank and her famous diary of her life in the hidden annex and the torment and torture suffered at the hands of the nazis is renowned worldwide even to this day.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
Mark Twain
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James Baldwin
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Broughan
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons.
John Ruskin
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Fros
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.
Jonathan Kozol
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?"
Barbara J. Alexander
Learning is finding out what you already know.
Richard Bach
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Ben Franklin
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert F. Goheen
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard.
Joseph Joubert
The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
Laurence Lee
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Hellen Keller
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Sir William Haley
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Anonymous teacher
