Children And Education Quotes by Ezra Pound, Maria Montessori, Brigham Young, B. B. King, Dorothy L. Sayers, Derek Bok and many others.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
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.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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 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.
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.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
