Browsing Topic Best Children And Education Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

No one can take it away from you.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.