Education Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about education.

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.

Walter Scott

Walter Scott

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The most important part of a man's education is that which he gives himself.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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The object of education is to form beings capable of governing themselves, and not to be governed by others.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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Train yourself instead of waiting to be trained and shaped.

George Travelyan

George Travelyan

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Education has managed to make people learn to read, but it is unable to point out what is worth reading.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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The principle of education is to lead by example.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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I have never allowed school to interfere with my education.

Daniel Pennac

Daniel Pennac

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I have always believed that the school is made, first and foremost, by the teachers.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Since we are destined to live our lives in the prison of our mind, let us at least furnish it well.