Education Quotes

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil." "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." "The first essential for the child’s development is concentration." "The child should live in an environment of beauty." "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit" "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry" "Learning is like chasing after the horizon there is no end." "To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind" "The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving myself headaches" "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children" "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn" "The learned man knows that he is ignorant" "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time."