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Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old education quotes, education sayings, and education proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
3 days ago 80 of the most powerful education quotes. Perfect if you're a student that needs motivation or a teacher that wants to inspire your students.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon Click to tweet
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce LeeClick to tweet
A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet
Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein Click to tweet (Based on this page, this quote is probably not from Einstein)
A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller Click to tweet
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead Click to tweet
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber Click to tweet
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson Click to tweet
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch Click to tweet
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund Click to tweet
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams
The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear
The more you make it easy for your kids, the more your remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge. Naval Ravikant
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey Click to tweet
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero Click to tweet
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor
The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller (This is one of my favorite education quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)
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I am still learning. Michelangelo Click to tweet
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Click to tweet
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert
Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre
The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki
There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb
There is no failure. Only feedback. Robert Allen
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou Click to tweet
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If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt
The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant
Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius
Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson
They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca Click to tweet
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
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You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones
Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright
The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams Click to tweet
Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn’t have. Unknown
Marriage can wait, education cannot. Khaled Hosseini
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When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb
If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb
A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. Chinese proverb
Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime. Chinese proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb
Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb
A stumble may prevent a fall. English Proverb
Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb
All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb
An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb Click to tweet
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb
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Teaching is the royal road to learning. Jessamyn West
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard
The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning. Lindsay Kolowich
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view. Jack Kerouac
Everybody’s a teacher if you listen. Doris Roberts
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
You get educated by traveling. Solange Knowles
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein
Peace is a necessity for education. Malala Yousafzai
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. Alfred Mercier Click to tweet
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. Bill Gates
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. Jiddu Krishnamurti
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
I learned from watching and I learned from doing. Claire Bloom
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. Jonathan Ive
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Lord Chesterfield
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. Swami Sivananda
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander
You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody. Juliana Hatfield Click to tweet
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Confucius
There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback. Anant Agarwal
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character. Joshua Waitzkin
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time. John McEnroe
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking. Lyndon B. Johnson
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. Jack Ma
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk. George Clooney
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner Click to tweet
People who switch between tasks tend to lose time and have problems staying on task. Kendra Cherry
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. Rose Kennedy
The past has infinite value if one learns from it. Ken Hensley
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Your best teacher is your last mistake. Ralph Nader
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. Richard Branson
You learn more when things go wrong. David E. Kelley
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar
By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. Abraham Maslow
I learn the most from making my own mistakes. David Fincher
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. Kathy Ireland
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. Shahrukh Khan
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself. James Cash Penney Click to tweet
I’ve learned to let things roll off my back. Leighton Meester
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. A. Bronson Alcott
The first lesson I’ve learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms – I mean, what works for you doesn’t necessarily work for your friend. Hillary Clinton
All things are lessons that God would have us learn. Iyanla Vanzant
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero! Swami Sivananda
You take an educated gamble. If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you’re not doing your job. James Sinegal
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present. Petra Nemcova
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. Yoko Ono
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. David M. Burns
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. John Hersey
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share. Steve Harvey
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. Roy H. Williams
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves. Swami Sivananda
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson Click to tweet
Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C.S. Lewis
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Minna Antrim
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard. Margaret Mead
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Wendell Phillips
I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity. Jenna Ushkowitz
I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well. Tim Cook
On Albert Einstein: Unlike most of his schoolmates, and schoolchildren today for that matter, the young Albert supplemented his education at school with his own self-styled curriculum at home and developed the skills he deemed important. He read and read and read. When he was hard at work, even the chaos of the family’s constant chatter could not distract the little autodidact. Jurgen Neffe
The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. Christian D. Larson
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. Pierre de Coubertin
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tzu
Suffering is one of life’s great teachers. Bryant H. McGill Click to tweet
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne
I learn the most when it’s really, really tough. Maxime Lagace
I wrote my first novel at the age of 19. […] I didn’t get published until I was 28. There was a lot of learning from 19 to 28. Nicholas Sparks
I think if you keep working hard and following your dreams, you can accomplish everything you set your mind to. Sundar Pichai, Google CEO
I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I’ve done in my life is between jobs. Anthony Michael Hall
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Abigail Adams
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With an education you all have everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfill every last one of your dreams. Michelle Obama
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Dr. Seuss
Resiliency is a skill that cannot be overlooked. In fact, it can be a skill that is the difference between surviving and thriving. Laurie A. Namey
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. Martin H. Fischer
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche Click to tweet
My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are, accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will become a white cloud. Osho
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate – what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders – they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one’s being, and not going on any track of becoming – which is unending. Osho
On questioning everything: It would infuriate my parents that I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something, because I asked them why and then I consider whether that response made sense given everything else I know. Elon Musk
I think people can choose to be not ordinary. They can choose to not necessarily conform to the conventions that were taught to them by their parents. So yes, I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. Elon Musk
Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Bertrand Russell
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha
The truth is when I went to graduate school I would’ve said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard. Mary Karr
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. Jacob Bronowski
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment. Leonardo da Vinci
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best. A.S. Neill
The middle years should be so busy, so demanding, so active, so adventurous that adolescents should barely have time for introspection. Michael Barber
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. Thomas Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Huxley
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner
The key thing to remember about me is that I’m still a student. I’m still in boot camp. Steve Jobs
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
I learned how to win by losing and not liking it. Tom Watson
I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path. Gore Verbinski
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important. Jamie Moyer
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. Joseph Lancaster
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler
What I’ve come to know is that in life, it’s not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning. Lester Holt
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities. Louise L. Hay
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready. Lucinda Williams
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn’t about money. It was about teaching, or learning. Maya Lin
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct. Robert Ley
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. Dudley Field Malone
You only stop learning when you quit. Ruud Gullit
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at. Tim Ferriss
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
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There is no single way to educate. Michael Gurian
Children just need the time, the space, and the permission to be kids. Angela Hanscom
We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them. Jean Jacques Rousseau
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him… instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it. Soren Kierkegaard
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet. Niall Ferguson
Our job is not to prepare students for something. Our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything. A.J. Juliani
Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let’s try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking. Marianne Stenger
Humor activates our sense of wonder, which is where learning begins. Sarah Henderson
Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom achievement. Robert John Meehan Click to tweet
The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources. David Puttnam
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. John Ruskin
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. Mickey Hart
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth”. Dan Rather
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. Joseph Campbell
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. Khalil Gibran
When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. Elizabeth Foss
The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. D. Martin Click to tweet
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! Steve Wozniak
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The job of the teacher is to inspired, to challenge, to excite their students to want to learn. Yes, they also do explain and demonstrate and show things, but fundamentally that is beside the point. The most important thing a teacher is make every student feel like they are important, to make them feel accountable for doing the work of learning. Derek Alexander Muller
The first education should be the harmonious development of the child’s physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children’s ‘hearts’ accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds. Raymond and Dorothy Moore
When the teacher regards each student as a unique individual and therefore not to be compared with any other, he is then not concerned with system or method. His sole concern is with ‘helping’ the student to understand the conditioning influences about him and within himself, so that he can face intelligently without fear, the complex process of living and not add more problems to the already existing mess. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France
One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success. Joshua Waitzkin
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Clay P. Bedford
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. Robert Frost
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. Robert Brault
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected. Thomas Moore
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening. Robert Brault
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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. Zhuangzi
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E.M. Forster
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. Noam Chomsky
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. Glenn Beck
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. John Locke
I had teachers who I could tell didn’t want to be there. And I just couldn’t get inspired by someone who didn’t want to be there. Hilary Swank
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him. James Baldwin Click to tweet
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner
The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his ‘mistakes’. The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes. Franz Cizek
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Mary Catherine Bateson
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A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them. Robert Sternberg
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount. Donald Norman
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter. Donald Norman
Great teachers are earnest learners. Rebecca Alber
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. Louis A. Berman
A teacher is never a giver of truth – he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst. Bruce Lee
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
Good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends. Maria Callas
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Charles Kuralt
A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. Josef Albers Click to tweet
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher. Harlan Coben
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures – they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That’s a fine art in itself. Sonny Perdue
Great teachers transcend ideology. Suzanne Fields
We need teachers – an hero in every classroom. Unknown
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living. Albert Einstein
A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child’s eyes. Unknown
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Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. Unknown
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander the Great
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes. Guy Kawasaki
Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children’s lives. Jon Porter
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. Fred Rodgers Click to tweet
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award. Prince William
I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Adam Hamilton
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. Sidney Hook
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. Solomon Ortiz
Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They’re building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well. Jim Hunt
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. Mike Huckabee
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. Kemal Ataturk
Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that. Kevin James
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Jacques Barzun
A teacher is a person who never says anything once. Howard Nemerov
Kids’ views are often just as valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that. Morley Safer
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. Ann Curry
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children. Arne Duncan
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Karl Menninger
I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. Ann Bancroft
I don’t think most teachers realize how much impact they have. Scott Hamilton
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. Elbert Hubbard
I always felt I needed to teach to survive. Leonard Baskin
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. Dan Rather
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century. David Puttnam
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ Maria Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori Click to tweet
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. Temple Grandin
I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized. Haim G. Ginott
I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. Talib Kweli
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Parents: let your kids fail. You’ll be doing them a favor. Jenny Anderson
Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart. Pope Francis
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert
My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be. Joan Jett
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. Saint Augustine
Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so night that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry. Alvin Price
And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they’re studying. Reese Witherspoon
I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny. Jim Carrey
On his father: He spent a lot of time with me… teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together. Steve Jobs
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. Carol Dweck Click to tweet
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. Chris Hemsworth
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature. Dakota Fanning
Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them. Ziauddin Yousafzai
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now. Amy Chua
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
Parents can lay the foundations for their teenage children to take good decisions, for example by promoting their ability to retain and elaborate information, or to balance the desire for immediate reward with the one for greater, long-term goals since a young age. Andrea Danese
I was lucky to have parents who loved me. Jean Paul Gaultier
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. Ann Brashares
Perhaps the most important thing is to step back and let your child stumble. Jamie M. Howard
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. Anne Lamott
My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing. Annette Bening
My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles. Arabella Weir
I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children. David Soul
I think if you give your best as a parent, then that’s all you can do. Heidi Klum
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn. Maria Montessori
The child should live in an environment of beauty. Maria Montessori Click to tweet
My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think. Holly Near
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I’m lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys. Joan Cusack
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support. Osho
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Stevie Wonder
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. Benjamin Franklin
Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Rabindranath Tagore
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Leo Buscaglia
I think the biggest difference is that I’ve noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children’s psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently. Amy Chua
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 Click to tweet
The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what is good in him rather than emphasizing what is bad. Talk about his goodness. Let the whole neighborhood know how nice and beautiful a boy he is. You may be able to shift his energy from the bad side to the good side, from the dark side to the lighted side, because you will make him aware that this is the way to get respect, this is the way to be honored. And you will prevent him from doing anything that makes him fall down in people’s eyes. Osho
I was raised by extremely strict – but also extremely loving – Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents – my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things! Amy Chua
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. Amy Chua
Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees. Osho
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As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents. Philip Yancey
That best academy, a mother’s knee. James Russell Lowell
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert
Of course, parents are the most important people in a child’s life. Hillary Clinton Click to tweet
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Khalil Gibran
When I look back I can’t believe how my parents managed, but the cliché is true. We didn’t have money, but we were rich in so many other ways. Joaquin Phoenix
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Mahatma Gandhi
Be kind to your children. Unless you raise them in a cardboard box without any stimulation or interaction, then they will probably be just fine. Bruce Hood
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What is a home without children? Quiet. Henny Youngman
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. Michelle Obama
Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice. Angela Kinsey
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. Jillian Michaels Click to tweet
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher
When you become a parent, it’s not all about you anymore. Carre Otis
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know. Dee Snider
But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man. LeBron James
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have. Philip Seymour Hoffman
You know, parenting is so personal. And we’re all afraid that we didn’t quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we – what if we made a mistake? Amy Chua
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done. Katey Sagal Even
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Nothing is so contagious as example. La Rochefoucauld
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung
If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn. Lady Gaga
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville
Developing resilience isn’t something you do over night — it’s the work of a lifetime. Connie Matthiessen
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think. Bertrand Russell
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin Click to tweet
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess. Joshua Waitzkin
It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak relatively late, so much so that they consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was then, certainly not less than three. Albert Einstein
I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school’s curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn’t work hard enough. Amy Chua
But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent – because everyday fears – like not being approved of – pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children. Arianna Huffington
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything. Brit Marling
The more certain kids are that someone’s got their back, the more confident and autonomous they can be. Melinda Wenner Moyer
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. James Russell Lowell
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. Ernest Istook
I’ve learned that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. Andy Rooney
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Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Wikipedia
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato
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
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. Thomas Moore
The education of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life.
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Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being; the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual.
Aug 1951, Pg 9, Vol 12, CWM
Up to the age of seven, children should enjoy themselves. School should all be a game, and they learn as they play. As they play they develop a taste for learning, knowing and understanding life.
16 Nov 1968, Pg 184, Vol 12, CWM
(Languages to be studied in Auroville)
(Written on the occasion of the inauguration of a school in Auroville. The Mother’s message for the school was: “A sincere will to know and to progress.”)
15 Dec 1970, Pg 222, Vol 12, CWM
I find tests an obsolete and ineffective way of knowing if the students are intelligent, willing and attentive. A silly, mechanical mind can very well answer a test if the memory is good and these are certainly not the qualities required for a man of the future.
22 Jul 1967, Pg 201, Vol 12, CWM
Since the beginning of this year a new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare the men for a new creation, the superman. For this creation to be possible the substance that constitutes man’s body must undergo a big change, it must become more receptive to the consciousness and more plastic under its working.
These are just the qualities that one can acquire through physical education.
01 Apr 1969, Pg 269, Vol 12, CWM
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught. The teacher is not an instructor or task-master, he is a helper and a guide. His business is to suggest and not to impose.
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The second principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth. The idea of hammering the child into the shape desired by the parent or teacher is a barbarous and ignorant superstition.
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The third principle of education is to work from the near to the far, from that which is to that which shall be.
1910, Pg 384, Vol 01, CWSA
Men have made language, poetry, history, philosophy agents for the training of this side of intellectuality, necessary parts of a liberal education, but the immense educative force of music, painting and sculpture has not been duly recognised. They have been thought to be bypaths of the human mind, beautiful and interesting, but not necessary, therefore intended for the few.
Pg 449, Vol 01, CWSA
(...) vital education has two principal aspects, very different in their aims and methods, but both equally important. The first concerns the development and use of the sense organs. The second the progressing awareness and control of the character, culminating in its transformation.
Aug 1951, Vol 12, CWM
What illusions and delusions is our education today beset with? How could we possibly keep clear of them?
a) The almost exclusive importance given to success, career and money.
b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit and the growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being.
05 Aug 1965, Pg 251, Vol 12, CWM
Psychic Education
With psychic education we come to the problem of the true motive of existence, the purpose of life on earth, the discovery to which this life must lead and the result of that discovery: the consecration of the individual to his eternal principle..
Feb 1952, Pg 30, Vol 12, CWM
Spiritual Education
(...) the supramental education will result no longer in a progressive formation of human nature and an increasing development of its latent faculties, but in a transformation of the nature itself, a transfiguration of the being in its entirety, a new ascent of the species above and beyond man towards superman, leading in the end to the appearance of a divine race upon earth.
Feb 1952, Pg 38, Vol 12, CWM
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