Quotes

•  “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

•  “You can never be overdressed or over-educated.”   Oscar Wilde

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

•  “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”  Plato

•  “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” G.K. Chesterton

•  “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”   Aristotle

• “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford

• “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”     Stanley Kubrick

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

• “By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.” Santosh Kalwar

• “Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”  Charles Platt

• “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.”  Ruth Beechick

• “Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.” C. JoyBell C.

• “Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”  Albert Einstein

• “There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”  Gordon B. Hinckley

• “All of life is a constant education.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

• “It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.” Claude Bernard