Quotes On Education

Here are more quotes on education which are some of my favorites. I hope you like them.

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” - Plato

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford

“True education awakens a desire to conserve health by keeping the body clean and undefiled.” - David O. McKay

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” - Confucius

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Parents are entrusted with the education of their children and, ultimately, parents must ensure that their children are being taught what their Heavenly Father would have them learn.” - L. Tom Perry

“True education regulates the temper, subdues passion and makes obedience to social laws and moral order a guiding principle of life. It develops reason and inculcates faith in the living God as the eternal loving Father of all.” - David O. McKay

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” – Brian Tracy

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” - Plato

“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.” - John Taylor Gatto

More Quotes On Education

“The roots of education are bitter,but the fruit is sweet.”- Aristotle

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.” - David O. McKay

“Stir within your children the desire for education. This is the latchkey to success in life.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

“There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.” - John Taylor Gatto

“Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.” - John Holt

“You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!” - John Taylor Gatto

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.” - Plato

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

More Quotes About Education

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” Peter Drucker

“As a parent you play a vital role in helping your children grow and learn to be a better person.” - Cee Lay

“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. Character is not the result of chance, but of continuous right thinking and right acting.” - David O. McKay

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

“True education trains in self-denial and self-mastery.” - David O. McKay

“The education received by children in their first two years is vital. The attitudes, the sounds, the quality of speech, the expression experienced, the reverence, kindness, the cruelty demonstrated in these critical years influence the future. The home may not be expert in plasma physics. We leave that to the universities. But it should be expert in teaching true self-identity as a child of God.” - G. Homer Durham

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.” -Brigham Young

“The gospel of Jesus Christ addresses every challenge — which is why we must teach it to our children.” - Robert D. Hales

“What, then, is true education? It is an awakening of love for truth, a giving of a just sense of duty, an opening of the eyes of the soul to the great purpose of life. It is not so much giving words as thought; not mere maxims so much as living principles. It is not teaching the individual to love the good for one's own sake; it is teaching him to love the good for the sake of the good itself, to be virtuous in action because he is so in heart, and to love and serve God supremely, not from fear but from delight in his perfect character.” - David O. McKay

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