Education Quotes

What does education do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

An essential first step in being creative yourself is to question your own way of looking at things. If he's serious about promoting creativity in others, perhaps Gove could start there.

The real driver of creativity is an appetite for discovery and a passion for the work itself. When students are motivated to learn, they naturally acquire the skills they need to get the work done. Their mastery of them grows as their creative ambitions expand. You'll find evidence of this process in great teaching in every discipline from football to chemistry.

creativity, like learning in general, is a highly personal process. We all have different talents and aptitudes and different ways of getting to understand things. Raising achievement in schools means leaving room for these differences and not prescribing a standard steeplechase for everyone to complete at the same time and in the same way.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in school comes from his inability to utilize the experience he gets outside while on the other hand he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning in school. That is the isolation of the school--its isolation from life.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

I love it when women go to school. It's like seeing a monkey on roller skates - it means nothing to them, but it's so adorable for us.

“This is a test of lower order thinking for the
lower orders.”

“This is a test of lower order thinking for the
lower orders.”

Educad a los niños y no será necesario castigar a los hombres.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

And have an education system that trusts both teachers and parents, because they're both experts in what kids need.

Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. 'Leadership qualities' are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

If I learn something new I actually go to bed happy