Education Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about education.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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There are no weeds or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Primary education is the right of the child.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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The future is in the hands of the schoolteacher.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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Advocate, my dear companion, for a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law of educating the common people.

Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus

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Education is what the majority receive, many transmit, and few have.

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children using fear as motivation.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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On education, I can only say that it is the most important issue in which we, as a nation, must get involved.

John Locke

John Locke

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The only defense against the world is a perfect knowledge of it.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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I reject all violence in the education of a tender soul being trained for honor and freedom.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

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The first task of education is to stir life, but leave it free to develop.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

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This is our duty towards the child: to give him a ray of light, and continue on our way.