Teaching Quotes Part 4

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, -the balance-wheel of the social machinery. - Horace Mann

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. - Benjamin Disraeli

Enlighten is a social process … Education is growth … Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. - Robert Frost

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. - Wilson Mizner

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is being educated. - Edith Hamilton

The secret of education is respecting the pupil. - Ralph Waldo

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Bishop Mandell Creighton

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert Maynard Hutchins

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. - Tyron Edwards

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. - R.S. Ingersoll