Quotes

Quotes
Motivation is like a food for brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting, it needs   continual and regular top ups.
Small minds discuss people; mediocre minds discuss events, great mind Discuss ideas.

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. – Vivekanand

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.- Gandhiji

What is education? Is it book learning? No. Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that. The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. John Adams
The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think. – Swami Vivekanand.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein

Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. – S.Vivekanand

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth. .- Gandhiji

It is man-making education all round that we want. – Swami Vivekanand

    What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. .- Gandhiji

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself John Dewey

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. – J. Krishnamurti

The very essence of education is concentration of mind. – Swami Vivekanand

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.- Sri Aurobindo

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.- Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.- Sri Aurobindo

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. .- Gandhiji

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. .-Gandhiji

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. – John Lubbock

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. – Ernest Hemingway

Silence is a source of great strength.  – Lao Tzu

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.–Confucius

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.- Churchill

Positives thinking will let you do everything better than negative Thinking will.

The Best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

If you tell truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.-Napoleon Hill

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.- Gandhiji

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.- Mark Twain

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.- Oscar Wilde

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.- Augustine

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

The past has no power over the present moment.- Eckhart Tolle

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.-Steven Spielberg

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”- Margaret Mead

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.-Mark Twain

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.- Confucius

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.- Robert Frost

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.- Aristotle

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man  more clever devil.- C.S. Lewis

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. – Plutarch

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. – Henri Frederic Amiel

You can pay people to teach, But you can’t pay them to care.-  Marva Collins

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – Richard Henry Dann

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. – Aristophenes

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. – Albert  Einstein

Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. –  Nikos Kazantzakis

Sometimes one man with courage is a majority. –  Andrew Jackson

Thought flows in terms of stories – stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories. –  Frank Smith

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

To teach is to learn twice. –  Joseph Joubert

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.- Louis Hector Berlioz

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say! – Goethe

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.  – Author Unknown

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others. – Buddha

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
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. –  Goethe

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. – Author Unknown

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.-  Horace Mann

Give me a fish and I eat for a day.  Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

The teachers who get “burned out” are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead  of the students at all times. –  Frank Smith

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn much. –  W.C. Stellar

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher’s actions.

You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein

Education  make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.-Peter Brougham
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.-Wiliam Butler Yeats

Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.- Native American Saying
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.- Alfred Mercier

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life.- Frederick

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.- Greek Proverb

What sculpture is to a block of marble,education is to the human soul.-Joseph Addison

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended  to with diligence.- Abigail Adams

What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself.- Edward Gibbon

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.-George Washington Carver

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.-Thomas Jefferson

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.-William Ellery Channing

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.-Novalis

Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education; because that would mean we had stopped growing.-Julia H. Gulliver

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.- Charles W. Eliot

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.- John W. Gardner

Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.-Martin Luther King

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.- James A. Garfield

Emeralds as well as glass will shine when the light is shed on them.-Japanese Saying

Education, like the mass of our age’s inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it The Simple Life Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.- Chinese Saying

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.-J.P Richter

When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, ‘As much as the living are to the dead.’- Diogenes Laetius

Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.

Education is the best provision for old age.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.- Mark Twain

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back. -Malala Yousafzai

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope.Hope breeds peace-Confucius

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.- Plato, The Republic

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. – John F. Kennedy

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. – Molière

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think. – Anne Bishop

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. – Ezra Pound

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.-Sasha Azevedo

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.Thomas Carruthers

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann

To teach is to learn twice over. –  Joseph Joubert

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.  –  Albert Einstein

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.-Henry Adams

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. –  Mark van Doren

I’m m not a teacher but an awakener. –  Robert Frost

Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. – Marva Collins

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.-  Marva Collins

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly. –  Lola May

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William Arthur Ward

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.