Please share a meaningful quote regarding the importance of education?
January 14, 2011 by Study Maven
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Looking for a meaningful quote in relation to the most important qualities of an outstanding educator. Many thanks for your input.
Here are several, hope you find what you are looking for.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “aparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough proplem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
Laurence Houseman once said, “A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.” Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
John Trimble
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Confucius
All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
Alvin Toffler
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.
Erasmus
Our best chance for happiness is education.
Mark VanDorn
Information cannot replace education.
Imparato and Itarari
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom S. Forbes
Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in the world of work and to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; To train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
‘Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.’
Hebrew Proverb
Education is a social process . . . education is growth . . . education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
An educated man must have a curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt.”
Derek Bok
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
James Beattie
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
Daniel Akaka
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius