Education

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but are more deadly in the long run.” ~Mark Twain

“Education consists of example and love – nothing else.”

~H. Pestalozzi

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”

~Robert Frost

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”

~Chinese proverb

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”

~Confucius

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

~Oscar Wilde

“Flatter me and I may not believe you

Criticize me and I may not like you

Ignore me and I may not forgive you

Encourage me and I may not forget you.”

~W.A. Ward

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul”

~Joseph Addison

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

~Emma Goldman

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

~Carl Jung

“A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.”

~Henry B. Adams

“Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.”

~Goethe

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

~Aristotle

“Wonder…is the root of knowledge.”

~Abraham Heschel

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

~Goethe

“The only good teachers for you are the friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.”

~Brenda Veland

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”

~Aristotle