Famous People on Education

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill
Following this advice, Ive perused such tomes and here youll find wise or witty thoughts spanning 2,500
years or so presented in no particular order.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new
way.
Doris Lessing
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching
others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his
own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable
inadequacy of his knowledge one then feels stimulated to improve himself.
Therefore, it is said, the processes of teaching and learning stimulate one another.
Confucius
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may
understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Dean William R. Inge
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of
being.
Goethe
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
Mark Twain
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation
into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the
means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in
the transformation of their world.
Paulo Freire
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you
learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Saint Francis de Sales
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W.B.Yeats
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing
can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to
teach himself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Cicero
An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able
to differentiate between what you know and what you dont.
Anatole France
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
And finally:
A professor is one who talks in someone elses sleep.

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what the difference between ignorance
and apathy is. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.