Education Quotes

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Every head should be cultivated.

My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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.

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

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.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.