
„Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
A collection of quotes on the topic of education, people, can, use.
„Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
„Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Variant: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
„The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
„The education of a man is never completed until he dies.“
— Robert E. Lee Confederate general in the Civil War 1807 - 1870
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175
„Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
— Epictetus philosopher from Ancient Greece 50 - 138
Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.
„I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Variant: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
„One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.“
— Abraham Maslow, book Motivation and Personality
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 255.
„Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world“
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
" Lighting your way to a better future : Speech delivered by Mr N R Mandela at launch of Mindset Network http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=item&ItemID=NMS909&txtstr=education%20is%20the%20most%20powerful," July 16, 2003 at db.nelsonmandela.org. ; Cited in: Nelson Mandela, S. K. Hatang, Sahm Venter (2012) Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom. p. 101.
2000s
Context: Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world and is a powerful part of that world changing arsenal.
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— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Education for All People and Education for Life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrdaen/1/1/1_KJ00006742072/_pdf
Education for Peace
„and should be entitled to have access to education according to their competency and needs.“
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
All for Education
Source: :http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
All for Education
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
„I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn“
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
„Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.“
— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC
— Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965
As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
„To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
— Robert Downey Jr. American actor 1965
Quoted in David Carr, "Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&, New York Times (2008-04-20)
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
„It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.“
— Aristotle, book Metaphysics
Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above.
Disputed
Source: Metaphysics
„Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.“
— Stephen Fry English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957
Variant: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)
„Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish physician and author 1859 - 1930
Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories
„The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967
„Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
Context: Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
„Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.“
— John Dewey American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859 - 1952
This is a paraphrase of an idea that Dewey expressed using other words in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916); it is widely misattributed to Dewey as a quotation.
Cf. James William Norman, A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=qrmgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 p. 140] (emphasis added): "...there has for years been a strong and growing tendency in the United States under the leadership of Dewey, and more recently of Kilpatrick, to find an educational method correlative of democracy in society with the belief that education is life itself rather than a mere preparation for life, and that practice in democratic living is the best preparation for democracy."
Misattributed
Variant: Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
— Aristophanés Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448 - -386 BC
Fictional attribution in the movie The Emperor's Club (2002), given by Kevin Kline (as William Hundert); also attributed to Diogenes, without sources; no published occurrences of this statement prior to the movie have been located in any of the Aristophanes Plays or Fragments.
Misattributed
Source: IMDb, "Memorable quotes for The Emperor's Club" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283530/quotes, Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com
Source: Two pages attributing it to Diogenes: http://www.prohibitionists.org/Background/Party_Platform/quickquotes/QQ-education.htm http://www.ryanbalton.com/funstuff/forb_seniorquotes.htm
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
„One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.“
— William Osler Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital 1849 - 1919
Source: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), p. 105.
— Chuba Okadigbo Nigerian politician 1941 - 2003
Source: Fani-Kayode urges Buhari to take Okadigbo’s advice, Ifreke Inyang, 23 October 2017, Daily Post, Nigeria, 18 April 2018 http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/23/fani-kayode-urges-buhari-take-okadigbos-advice/,
— Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940 - 2011
On her opposition to the construction of a skyscraper in Nairobi, Kenya, as quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman ..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
„Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.“
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
Variant: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
— John Henrik Clarke American historian and writer 1915 - 1998
— John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
„Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.“
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 BC
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary
„Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.“
— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939
— Idi Amin third president of Uganda 1925 - 2003
Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974), General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait.
— Edward Bernays American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer 1891 - 1995
Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212
„The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.“
— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952
Part II : How Language Calls to the Child, p. 121
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
— Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 442.
Source: Computing machinery and intelligence
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
— Giovanni Gentile Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician 1875 - 1944
“The Philosophy of Fascism,” first published in English in the Spectator, November 1928, pp. 36-37. Reprinted in Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 33
— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969
In his first school essay, while in Class VIII, expressing his ideas and ideals, in: p. 28.
Quest for Truth (1999)
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
— Joachim Peiper SS officer 1915 - 1976
Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.
— Magic Johnson American basketball player 1959
Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson Hasidic rabbi 1902 - 1994
Endorsement of President Jimmy Carter's Education Program - Feb. 7, 1979.
— Fidel Castro former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba 1926 - 2016
University of Havana address (2005)
Context: Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues. Nature makes us do things instinctively; one of these is the instinct for survival which can lead to infamy, while on the other side, our conscience can lead us to great acts of heroism. It doesn’t matter what each one of us is like, how different we are from each other, but when we unite we become one.
It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas. Nobody followed the Revolution as a cult to anyone or because they felt personal sympathy with any one person. It is only by embracing certain values and ideas that an entire people can develop the same willingness to make sacrifices of any one of those who loyally and sincerely try to lead them toward their destiny.
— Manly P. Hall Canadian writer and mystic 1901 - 1990
Quoted in the tribute of The Lost Symbol (2009) by Dan Brown
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Context: A nation with culture is blessed. To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.
„That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him.“
— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952
The Secret of Childhood, p. 108.
Context: We have in ourselves tendencies that are not good and which flourish like weeds in a field. (Original sin). These tendencies are many; they fall into seven groups, known of old as the Seven deadly sins. All deadly sins tend to separate us from the child; for the child compared to us, is not only purer but has mysterious qualities, which we adults as a rule cannot perceive, but in which we must believe with faith, for Jesus spoke to them so clearly and insistently that all the Evangelists recorded His words: Unless ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall nor enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him. It is with this endeavour, thus defined and delimited, that we wish to deal.
„Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.“
— Abbie Hoffman American political and social activist 1936 - 1989
Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 64.
Context: My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
— Zakir Hussain (politician) 3rd President of India 1897 - 1969
Times of India in: p. 347.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)
— Unknown author
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
Disputed
„Marriage can wait, education cannot.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
„If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.“
— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993
„My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.“
— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1901 - 1978
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell
Variant: I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
— John Taylor Gatto American teacher, book author 1935 - 2018
Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, Berkeley Hills Books (2000) p. 178
— Gustave Flaubert French writer (1821–1880) 1821 - 1880
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
Variant: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Context: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)
„The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.“
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
Source: An Anthology
„The educator has the duty of not being neutral.“
— Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
„Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
„From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.“
— Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician and philosopher 1861 - 1947
— John Grogan American journalist 1958
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
„Education is a system of imposed ignorance.“
— Noam Chomsky, book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Source: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
„Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.“
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
Letter from Lenin to Gorky https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/g2aleks.html, Sept. 15, 1919
1910s
Source: The Letters Of Lenin