The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. Sydney J. Harris

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. Martin H. Fischer

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of harvest.The Talmud

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. William B. Yeats

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.Chuck Palahniuk

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.William Blake

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll

The historian is a prophet in reverse.Friedrich von Schlegel

If you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else does.Anthony Robbins

The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. Author Unknown

The mother's heart is the child's school-room. Henry Ward Beecher

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Author Unknown

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert Maynard Hutchins

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. Frank A. Clark

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep

That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb

I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw

I try not to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.Mikhail Baryshnikov

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.Mark Twain

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. Saki (H. H. Munro)

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not... Albert Einstein

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