Education Quotations


“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

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” ~~ Samuel Johnson

“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.” ~~ Robert Frost

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“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” ~~  Bill Beattie

“There’s tons of magic in the world, and it’s all science.” ~~ Martha Beck, at TEDx San Diego 2011

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.” ~~ Sir Ken Robinson

“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it’s the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.” ~~ Sir Ken Robinson

“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” ~~ Sir Ken Robinson