Education Quotes

"Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over the long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our children should learn the general framework of their government, and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

- H.G. Wells

"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."

- Epictetus

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."

- Albert Einstein

"Time outdoors in nature offers endless opportunities to learn and grow, and supports the development of the whole child – cognitive, physical, social, emotional and creative"

- Erin Saunders

"Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don’t just tell children about the world. Show them."

- Penny Whitehouse

"Anything you teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children."

- Cathy James

"Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives."

- Thomas Berry

"Before we ever put a pencil in a child’s hands, those hands should dig, climb, press, pull, squish, twist, and pinch in a wide array of environments and with a variety of materials."

- Amanda Morgan

"Let’s raise children who can name more stars in the sky than stars on the screen."

- Nicolette Sowder

"Children are born with a sense of wonder and an affinity for nature. Properly cultivated, these values can mature into ecological literacy. And eventually into sustainable patterns of living."

- Zenobia Barlow

"I believe that those boys who take part in rough, hard play outside of school will not find any need for horse-play in school."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

- Socrates

"Children are not perfect, they are learning; and you are in a unique position to help them understand the world and themselves."

- Brené Brown

"What we are teaches the child more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become."

- Brené Brown

"Education is the best provision for old age."

- Aristotle

"Learn to write well. It is the accelerant to thinking and communicating clearly."

- Thomas Griffin

""The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.""

- Aristotle

""When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.""

- The Talmud

"If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn"

- O. Lvar Lovaas

"You’re saying it wrong. It’s leviOsa, not levioSA."

- Hermione Granger

""The future of the world is in my classroom today.""

- Ivan Welton Fitzwater

"Extremists have shown what frightens them most: A girl with a book."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Some parents feel that reading a picture book to their child in an animated and child-like way somehow renders them immature and unrefined. Being that the ability to read is the most prized intellectual skill anyone can possess, and if readers really are born on the laps of their parents, then I would say that reading to your child in that way is the most grown-up and sophisticated thing that a parent could do."

- LBC

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Every time you ride, you are either teaching or un-teaching your horse."

- Gordon Wright