Education Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about education.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

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The best teaching is that which uses the fewest words necessary for the task.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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The education of women cannot be called education, but rather taming, since its ultimate goal is obedience, passivity, and submission.

Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

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Education, for the majority, means trying to make the child resemble the typical adult of their society. But for me, it means making creators, you have to make inventors, innovators, and non-conformists.

Pythagoras of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos

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Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

The aim of education is virtue and the desire to become a good citizen.

The most important and principal public business is the good education of the youth.

Two excesses must be avoided in the education of youth; too much severity, and too much sweetness.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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Fear is a poor teacher to give lessons in virtue.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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You will never be friars if you are not first acolytes.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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To educate a child is not to make them learn something they didn't know, but to make of them someone who didn't exist.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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Do not teach children anything of which you are not absolutely sure. It's better for them to ignore a thousand truths than to know a single lie.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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There is no education if there is no truth to transmit, if everything is more or less true, if everyone has their equally respectable truth and one cannot rationally decide among such diversity.