Education Quotes

""Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.""

- Frederick Douglass

""There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.""

- Frank Serafini

""Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.""

- Emilie Buchwald

"A good teacher is like the rising sun that comes to fill the empty and dark minds with the light of the education"

- Anamika Mishra

"Education is what allows you to stand out"

- Ellen Ochoa

"Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college."

- Ellen Ochoa

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Maimonides

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."

- Jane Addams

"My mum was well-travelled, well-educated and made me understand from books, from my imagination and from just taking me away on holiday once a year, wherever she could, that the world was bigger than Peckham."

- Ashley Walters

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught."

- Oscar Wilde

"Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise."

- Michelle Obama

"Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap."

- Helen Keller

"Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right."

- Helen Keller

"The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school."

- Will Smith

"The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe."

- Florence Nightingale

"I believe that to teach them effectively you must touch their hearts long before you begin to teach their minds"

- Vicki Savini

"I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy. Can anybody argue about the benefits for a child who is appreciated and enjoyed for what she can do and does naturally? …I believe this issue is so basic, so important, that it cannot be overstated."

- Magda Gerber

"When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems."

- Adele Faber

"If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet."

- Linda Darling-Hammond

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul."

- Friedrich Froebel

"With children, it is the joint moments of delight that build the social brain."

- Mariah Moser

"I shouldn’t have to defend play for children any more than I should have to defend their eating, sleeping, and breathing."

- Rae Pica

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before."

- Loris Malaguzzi

"No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship."

- James Comer

"Teach people how to think, not what to think."

- Sidney Sugarman

"Teaching youngsters to count is wonderful, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"Reading is Fundamental. In fact, it is one of the most important ingredients to becoming all that you can be. Reading develops your brain, provides a window into the world around you and helps you do better in all school subjects. Most importantly, reading can not only help you become a better student, but a better person. You can learn from the brightest people whenever and wherever you choose."

"Not all children are provided with an equal chance to read."

"Studying is always the best investment in the future. Don’t just study to qualify, but also study to edify, elevate and to amplify your life."

"From book learning to social skills, high school provided you with a solid foundation for adulthood."