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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Object, Their, Themselves, Throughout, Young, Prefer, Prepare, Lives

• If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Heart, Evil, Strength, Criticism

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  Beatrix Potter

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Creativity

• The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Creativity

• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Ultimately, Insist, Mere, Rest, Must, Real, Limited, Knowing, Men

• The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves

  Newton Diehl Baker

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Men

• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Political, Men

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Topics in Education

  Tags in School, Men

• Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Open, Empty, Purpose, Replace, Mind

• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Education, Progress

  Tags in Mind

• It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

  James Baldwin

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Mind

• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Inclined, Twig, Mind

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

  Tryon Edwards

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Discipline, Learning, Thinking, Mind

• As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

  William Godwin

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Pupil, Copy

• So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

  Judy Chicago

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Women, Beginning, Language, Conscious

• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

  Muriel Spark

  Topics in Education, Soul

  Tags in Leading, Intrusion, Already, Putting, Pupil, Call, Out, Something, Miss

• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  Jim Rohn

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Motivation

• No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Contempt, Without, Best, Gentle, Got, Out, Man, Complete

• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Learning, Teaching, Competition

• Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Community