Education Quotes

"From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood."

- Betty Smith

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

- Bruce Lee

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

- John W. Gardner

"NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people."

- Neil Armstrong

"Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future."

- Euripides

"You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous."

- Michelle Obama

"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."

- Quintilian

"The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe-how to observe-what symptoms indicate improvement-what the reverse-which are of importance-which are of none-which are the evidence of neglect-and of what kind of neglect."

- Florence Nightingale

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."

- Blaise Pascal

"In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else"

- Jose Raul Capablanca

"Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!"

- Stephan Gerzadowicz

"Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight"

- Jose Raul Capablanca

"By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution..."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Chess opens and enriches your mind"

- Saudin Robovic

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Jung

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

- Charlemagne

"School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"

- Maria Mitchell

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."

- Roald Dahl

"A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest."

- C.S. Lewis

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

- Maya Angelou

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them."

- Judy Blume

"Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible."

- Barack Obama

"Never give up on a child who is struggling to read. With the right help, they can overcome any obstacle."

- Dr. Timothy Shanahan

"Read, because that’s the way you learn how the language works. That’s the way you learn about emotion, on paper. That’s how you find out how stories are fastened, by reading and reading and reading."

- Yolen

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."

- Neil Gaiman

"When I say to a parent, “read to a child,” I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate."

- Mem Fox