Education Quotes

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." "Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning" "The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work" "The more you know, the more you know you don't know." "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." "A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily." "What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows." "To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society." "Beware the man of a single book." "My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back." "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." "Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well-spoken words: this is good luck." "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." "Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person." "I want to learn how to become the best basketball player in the world. And if I’m going to learn that, I gotta learn from the best. Kids go to school to be doctors or lawyers, so forth and so on and that’s where they study. My place to study is from the be" "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "You cannot open a book without learning something." "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."