Education and Training Quotes
Top 40 Education and Training Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-mandela.jpg)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), pictured right,
South African leader.
No 2![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-adams-john.jpg)
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- John Adams (1735-1826) American president,
pictured right. ![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-ruskin.jpg)
John Ruskin (1819-1900), pictured right,
the English writer and philosopher, emphasizes work:
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
![Education and Training Quotes God and Religion Quotes](images/quotesinge.jpg)
William Inge (1860-1954), the English writer and Anglican priest, pictured right,
emphasizes values:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact but of values.
No 3![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-galileo.jpg)
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.
- Galileo (1564-1642), Italian scientist,
pictured right.
Other great thinkers agree:![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-socrates.jpg)
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- Socrates (470-399 BC), Greek
philosopher, pictured right, ![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-piaget.jpg)
Coercion is the worst of teaching methods.
- Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Swiss
educational psychologist, pictured right.
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-spark.jpg)
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul,
(from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ,1961)
- Muriel Spark (1918-2006), pictured right, Scottish writer.
If he [the teacher]is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the
threshold of your mind,
(from The Prophet, 1923)
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American philosopher, pictured right.
No 4![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-rogers-carl.jpg)
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
- Carl
Rogers (1902-87), American psychologist, pictured right.
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
So Peter Drucker, pictured right, in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (1985) says:
In an entrepreneurial society individuals have a tremendous challenge... the need for continuous learning and
re-learning.
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-toffler.jpg)
Alvin Toffler, pictured right, also said in Future Shock (1970):
Tomorrow’s illiterate will be the man who has not learned how to learn
No 5![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-piaget.jpg)
Education means making creators..
- Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss
educational psychologist, pictured right.
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-lewin.jpg)
No 6
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process,
- Kurt Lewin 1890-1947)
German-born American psychologist, pictured right.
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-creighton.jpg)
So the English writer and bishop, Mandell Creighton (1843-1901), pictured right,
said:
The only real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
No 7![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-disraeli.jpg)
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), British
prime minister, pictured right.
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-burke.jpg)
Edmund Burke (1729-97),
Irish-born British Member of Parliament, pictured right, agrees:
Education is the cheap defence of nations.
No 8![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand,
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
No 9![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-skinner.jpg)
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten,
- B. F.
Skinner (1904–90), American psychologist, pictured right..
No 10![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-samuel.jpg)
A library is thought in cold storage.
- Lord Samuel (1870–1963), British politician, pictured right.
No 11![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-sullivan-annie.jpg)
Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected.
- Annie Sullivan (1866–1936), pictured right, American educator and tutor of
Helen Keller .
No 12![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-bronte-charlotte.jpg)
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soul has never been loosened
or fertilised by education.
(Jane in Jane Eyre)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-55),
English writer, pictured right
![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-herman-melville.jpg)
No13
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
(Ishmael in Moby-Dick, 1851)
- Herman Melville (1819-91), pictured right above, American writer.![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-dewey.jpg)
John Dewey (1859-1952), the
American philosopher, pictured right, agrees:
Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.
No 14![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-epictetus.jpg)
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus (c.55-c.135 AD), Greek philosopher, pictured right.
Epictetus also comments:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
No 15![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
Study without a liking for it spoils the memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
No16![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-brougham.jpg)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave,
- Lord Brougham (1778–1868), Scottish lawyer and politician, pictured right.
No 17![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-maslow.jpg)
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
(known as Maslow’s Hammer)
- Abraham
Maslow (1908-70), American psychologist, pictured right.
No 18![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-shaw.jpg)
He who can does. He who cannot teaches.
(from the 1903 play Man and Superman)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer, pictured
right.
No 19![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-gates.jpg)
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the
most important.
- Bill Gates (1955- ), co-founder of Microsoft,
pictured right.
Gates also comments:
Education is society’s great leveller.
No 20![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-follett.jpg)
The greatest service the teacher can render the student is to increase his freedom – his free range of activity
and thought and his power of control,
- Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) American
management expert, pictured right.
No 21![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-kroc.jpg)
If you think that training is expensive consider the costs of ignorance,
- Ray Kroc (1902-84), founder of McDonald's, pictured right.
No 22![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-aristotle.jpg)
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 23![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-einstein.jpg)
Only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
German-born American scientist, pictured right.
No 24![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-watson-john.jpg)
Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything.
- John Watson (1878-1958), American psychologist, pictured right.
No 25![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-fd.jpg)
The real safeguard of democracy... is education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945),
pictured right, American president.
No 26![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-ted.jpg)
To educate a man in mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society,
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), pictured
right, American president.
No 27![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-ford.jpg)
An educated man...is one who can accomplish things.
- Henry Ford (1863-1947), American car maker,
pictured right.
No 28![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quoteswells%20.jpg)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells (1866-46), English writer, pictured right.
No 29![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-aristotle.jpg)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 30![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-dewey.jpg)
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
- John Dewey (1859-1952), American
philosopher and educator (pictured right).
Dewey also says:
Scepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind
No 31![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-toffler.jpg)
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to
education.
- Alvin Toffler, pictured right, in Future Shock (1970)
No 32![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-emerson.jpg)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882), American writer and philosopher, pictured right.
Also said by Friedrich
Engels (1820-95), co-author of the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx
No 33![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotesmore2.jpg)
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills or abilities – that’s training or
instruction – but is rather make visible what is hidden as a seed.
- Thomas More (1477-1535), English
philosopher and politician, pictured right,
No 34![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-nietzsche.jpg)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those
who think differently.
- Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, pictured right,
No 35![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-paine.jpg)
One schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
- Thomas (Tom)
Paine (1737-1809), English philosopher, pictured right,
No 36![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-wittgenstein.jpg)
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
- Ludwig
Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-born British philosopher, pictured right,
No 37![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-keynes.jpg)
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard
Keynes (1883-1946), English economist, pictured right,
No 38![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
(Casca in Julius Caesar)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 39![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-friedman-thomas.jpg)
In an age when technological change is so rapid, and the walls around companies and countries so small, only new
skills and lifelong learning can ensure job security.
- Thomas Friedman, pictured right, Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999)
No 40![Education and Training Quotes Education and Training Quotes](images/quotes-mcgregor.jpg)
Managerial competence is created on the job, not in the classroom.
- Douglas McGregor, pictured right, The Human Side of
Enterprise (1960)
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