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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

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

No one can take it away from you.

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

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.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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