Education Quotes

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Removing red tapism and favoritism in higher education and research administration and management is of utmost importance. We need to empower universities, both government funded and private, to promote research and enable them to improve research infrastructure.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.