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Inspirational School Quotes

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“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.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

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

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

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.”

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”