Education has been, and is close to my heart as a retired teacher. For most people, there is always an opportunity for learning and teaching.
Here is a select list of quotes exploring the nature of education:
- In education there should be no class distinction. ~ Confucius
- Only the educated are free. ~ Epictetus
- A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. ~ Plutarch
- Education is the transmission of civilization. ~ Will and Ariel Durant
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B. F. Skinner
- The best thing for being sad...is to learn something. ~ T.H. White
- Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ~ Anatole France
- The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. ~ Joseph Campbell
Selected by quoteflections.
- The highest result of education is tolerance. ~ Helen Keller
- What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain
- A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
- Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. ~ Claus Moser
- Education is the most important weapon which you can use to change the world. ~ Nelson Mandela
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every school. ~ Yehudi Menuhin
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