Top 100 True Education Quotes
#1. True education should enhance the power of the imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. True education is gained through the discipline of life. There
Henry Ford
#5. True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.
Toba Beta
#6. True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
Bryant H. McGill
#8. True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
David O. McKay
#9. True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.
Debasish Mridha
#10. True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#11. True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.
Debasish Mridha
#13. The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.
Anuj
#14. Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.
John Stossel
#15. True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
Felix Schelling
#16. Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education ... is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
David O. McKay
#17. True education is the ultimate secret of a successful life.
Debasish Mridha
#18. If a teacher teaches you what to think, but not how to think, it is not a true education.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#20. An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#21. True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.
Debasish Mridha
#23. True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.
David O. McKay
#24. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#26. Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. A true education prepares you not only for living but also for life.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.
John Cowper Powys
#31. 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
#33. The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Boris Sidis
#34. Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.
Robert Kiyosaki
#35. In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel De Montaigne
#37. True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman
#39. True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#40. True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.
Sai Baba
#42. Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
David O. McKay
#43. Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
Sai Baba
#44. True education will shape your life, but if you ignore education you will be punished by your life.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.
Douglas Wilson
#46. A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
Henry Ford
#47. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#48. True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.
Debasish Mridha
#49. I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#50. I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John Dewey
#51. The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
John Ruskin
#52. True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.
Debasish Mridha
#54. True education is awakening a love for truth ... opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
David O. McKay
#55. All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.
Neale Donald Walsch
#56. True education gives a child wings to fly in his imaginative blue sky.
Debasish Mridha
#57. A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
Oliver DeMille
#59. True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#60. True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!
Rhonda Byrne
#63. A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.
Ilchi Lee
#64. Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
David Eddings
#65. It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.
Ronald Reagan
#66. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.
Boyd K. Packer
#67. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The
Josiah Bancroft
#68. As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
Pranab Mukherjee
#69. As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
Wendy Davis
#70. Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.
Debasish Mridha
#72. The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
Frances Harper
#73. Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.
Debasish Mridha
#74. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.
Debasish Mridha
#75. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis
Constance Savery
#76. Doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.
Josephine Tey
#77. I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
Samuel Alito
#78. A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#79. They are doing for their pupils the work which the pupils themselves ought to do. For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#80. And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
Mark Rylance
#81. Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
Richard Dawkins
#82. A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal interest.
Khem Veasna
#83. A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#84. Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
Karl Kraus
#85. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Pauline Phillips
#86. Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if "furthering and bettering" means "making more money" ... For many life reveals itself more intimately in literature than in ledgers.
Gina Barreca
#87. Do what you love; love what you do. You will be happy; your dreams will come true.
Debasish Mridha
#88. I have this thought, it's horrible, and it makes me sick, but it's true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they're going to name them for men and women who will die in this war.
Tucker Elliot
#89. Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.
Debasish Mridha
#91. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#92. Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation.
Debasish Mridha
#93. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,
I am not true, I am not false,
I am just me,
a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
Josh Lanyon
#95. Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.
Richard S. Hartmetz
#97. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.
Noam Chomsky
#98. The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
#99. The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.
Adolf Hitler
#100. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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