Education Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about education.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Those who educate children well deserve more honors than their own parents, because the former only gave them life, the latter taught them the art of living well.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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Being self-taught is, I am convinced, the only type of education that exists.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never stopped imitating them.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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All educators are absolutely dogmatic and authoritarian. There can be no free education, because if you leave a child free, you will not educate them.

Diego Luís Córdoba

Diego Luís Córdoba

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Ignorance leads to servitude, education leads to freedom.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

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A mediocre student is one who does not surpass his teacher.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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How is it that, while children are so intelligent, most men are so stupid? It must be the result of education.

Fénelon

Fénelon

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Usually, those who educate children and do not forgive them anything forgive themselves everything.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Either one learns manners at home or the world teaches them with a whip, and we can hurt ourselves.

Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry

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School: a place where children learn what is necessary to become a teacher.