Education Quotes
This collection of education quotes was inspired by the following quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” ~~ Anne Sullivan
“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.” ~~ Anne Sullivan
“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ~~ A. A. Milne
“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.” ~~ Joseph Joubert
“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
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” ~~ Rita Mae Brown
“Play is the most intelligent thing our human brains can do.” ~~ Martha Beck, at TEDx San Diego 2011
“Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying ‘I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award.’ The other is ‘You want fries with that?'” ~~ Robin Williams
