“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
Source: Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
Source: George Washington Carver: In His Own Words
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
Source: Interaction of Color
“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”
“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.”
Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein