Thirteen Great Thoughts About Education [Second Edition]

1. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”~Plutarch

2. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” ~Herbert Spencer

3. “Education is too important to be left solely to educators.” ~Francis Keppel

4. “Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.” ~William Feather

5. “When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead.” ~Diogenes Laertius (fl. 2nd century)

6. “I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.” ~Mark Twain

7. “Education has for its object the formation of character.” ~Herbert Spencer

8. “What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out.” ~John Holt

9. “To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

10. ” He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.” ~Chinese proverb

11. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” ~Jim Rohn

12. “Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.” ~Jean Jacques Rousseau

13. “The question is not,—how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education—but how much does he care?” ~Charlotte Mason

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