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If there were no schools to
take the children away from home part of the time, the insane
asylums would be filled with mothers. — Edgar W. Howe
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.
If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt
you. — Erma Bombeck
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going
back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence
Day, but that name was already taken.
— Bill Dodds
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
— Sydney J. Harris
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who
educate him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it
is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
— Margaret Laurence
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which
Archimedes would have given his life. — Ernest Renan, Souvenirs
d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
— John Dewey
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives. — Robert Maynard Hutchins
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
— Author
Unknown
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about
besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
— Author
Unknown
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.
That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. — Author
Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and
August. — Author Unknown
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of
wonder.
— Ralph W. Sockman
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not
knowledge in pursuit of the child. — George Bernard Shaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
A professor is someone who
talks in someone else's sleep. — W.H.
Auden
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
— Benjamin
Franklin
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order
than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.
— Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited
by John R. Kemble, 1902
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a
child to go to bed.
— Robert Gallagher
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark
Twain
It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't
like it.
— Finley Peter Dunne
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
— Walker Percy
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
— Albert Einstein
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
— Attributed to
both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
— Edward Everett
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
— Victor Hugo
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of
children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
— Erich Fromm
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too
often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. — Martin H.
Fischer
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure
that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know
how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to
know it. — William Haley
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
— Doug Larson
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
— Malcolm S. Forbes
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde,
"The Critic as Artist," 1890
Did you know America ranks the
lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be
number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war
on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on
drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. — Leighann Lord
Children have to be educated,
but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
— Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required
course. — Peter Drucker
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
— Allan Bloom
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we
are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them
to grow their own plants.
— John W. Gardner
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
— William
Butler Yeats
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then
spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then
they would really be educated.
— Al McGuire
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
— Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents
The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with
tortures called education. School is where you go between when your
parents can't take you and industry can't take you. — John Updike,
The Centaur, 1963
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition
of continually asking questions. — Bishop Mandell Creighton
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him
to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning
process as long as he lives. — Clay P. Bedford
When the student is ready, the master appears.
— Buddhist Proverb
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
— Ray LeBlond
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
— Mohammed
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
— Chinese Proverb
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
— Martin H.
Fischer
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being
taught. — Winston Churchill
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies,
can continue growing as we continue to live. — Mortimer Adler
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer
an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before
they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
— Thomas Szasz
I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from
a professor of Greek and a few poets. — Bernard Keble Sandwell
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too
busy later.
— Dana Stewart Scott
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin
Toffler
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one
time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want
to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or
dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional
excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of
the classroom teacher's job. — Donald D. Quinn
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops. — Henry Brooks Adams
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur
Ward
The teacher who is indeed wise
does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads
you to the threshold of your mind. — Kahlil Gibran
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