“Education is not just going to school for a few years and learning a thing or two fairly well, and a few bits and pieces of others—that is, it is not what it usually becomes in practice or is taken to be. It is a leading forward, a leading out, which is the root meaning of the word.”
— Jesse Roarke
“True education will nurture noble character rather than egoistic calculation, foster sharp intelligence rather than routine memory, train the student to the kind of technical work he or she likes to do and can do, and teach things of lasting value rather than force useless ones into the mind.”
— Paul Brunton
“To my mind, education is the spirit of enquiry, the ability to keep one’s mind and heart open to beauty and goodness, indeed all that surrounds us, to be able to think and judge for oneself. Education should inculcate a life-long habit of learning. And today, this is all the more necessary because the corpus of knowledge is increasing at a tremendous pace, often making what one has learnt obsolete.”
— Indira Gandhi
“I am persuaded that the best education in the world is that which we insensibly acquire from conversation with our intellectual superiors.”
— Bulwer
“We learn not at school, but in life.”
— Seneca
“There is only one corner of the Universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.”
— Aldous Leonard Huxley
“Children should be taught to look for beauty everywhere, to read the great poem of creation in the great panorama of Nature.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Of what use is an education if it does not teach the young how to use their minds so as to promote their own welfare, instead of their own harm? All ought to be made aware of the value and need of emotional and thought control, of discriminating between destructive or negative thoughts and constructive or positive ones.”
— Paul Brunton
“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
— Alvin Toffler
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
— Dudley Field Malone
“A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.”
— Henry Brooks Adams
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Acquire new knowledge while thinking over old, and you may become a teacher of others.”
— Confucius
“A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.”
— James B. Stockdale
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
— Malcolm Forbes
“The main goal of education is to teach people to think.”
— Lord Cromer
“The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade, character, not technicalities.”
— Winston Churchill
“In school you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
— Tom Bodtt
“An open mind is the beginning of self-discovery and growth. We can’t learn anything new until we can admit that we don’t already know everything.”
— Erwin G. Hall
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right way.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“No system of Education will ever be worth what it costs until it trains the wants of our children. How to gratify the wants that are legitimate? How to restrain the wants that are unsocial? If teachers cannot do this, of what moral use is it to do anything else?”
— Herbert Casson
“A student gets forms, rules, and guidebooks in college, but he must get power from actual contact with the acting, living world.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“The great man was not great when he started his career. Neither was he wise. But he made himself great and wise by learning-learning-learning.”
— Herbert Casson
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
— John Cotton Dana
“Acquire new knowledge while thinking over old, and you may become a teacher of others.”
— Confucius
“I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”
— Natalie Portman
“Education is discipline for the adventure of life.”
— A. North Whitehead