Education Quotes

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done" "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is" "Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things" "What a child can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow" "The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." "Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." "Education is an act of love thus an act of courage" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Beware the man of a single book." "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."