Quotes about education

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

- Wiliam Butler Yeats

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

- Native American Saying

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

- T.S. Eliot

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

- Greek Proverb

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice is the best of all instructors.

- Publilius Syrus

Education is the transmission of civilization.

- Will Durant

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.

- William Ellery Channing

Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.

- Robin Cook

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

- John W. Gardner

Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am still learning.

- Michelangelo

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

- Chinese Saying

Education should consist of a series of enchantments, each raising the individual to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and kinship with all living things.

- Author Unkown

When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.'

- Diogenes Laetius

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

- Chinese Proverb

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

- Harry Firestone

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

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