Famous Quotes About education

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a nation.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.