Education and Training Quotes
Top 40 Education and Training Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
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
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.
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.
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
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 is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- Socrates (470-399 BC), Greek
philosopher, pictured right,
Coercion is the worst of teaching methods.
- Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Swiss
educational psychologist, pictured right.
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
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.
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.
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 means making creators..
- Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss
educational psychologist, pictured right.
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.
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
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), British
prime minister, pictured right.
Edmund Burke (1729-97),
Irish-born British Member of Parliament, pictured right, agrees:
Education is the cheap defence of nations.
No 8
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 is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten,
- B. F.
Skinner (1904–90), American psychologist, pictured right..
No 10
A library is thought in cold storage.
- Lord Samuel (1870–1963), British politician, pictured right.
No 11
Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected.
- Annie Sullivan (1866–1936), pictured right, American educator and tutor of
Helen Keller .
No 12
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
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.
John Dewey (1859-1952), the
American philosopher, pictured right, agrees:
Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.
No 14
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
Study without a liking for it spoils the memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
No16
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
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
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
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
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
If you think that training is expensive consider the costs of ignorance,
- Ray Kroc (1902-84), founder of McDonald's, pictured right.
No 22
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 23
Only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
German-born American scientist, pictured right.
No 24
Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything.
- John Watson (1878-1958), American psychologist, pictured right.
No 25
The real safeguard of democracy... is education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945),
pictured right, American president.
No 26
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
An educated man...is one who can accomplish things.
- Henry Ford (1863-1947), American car maker,
pictured right.
No 28
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells (1866-46), English writer, pictured right.
No 29
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
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
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
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 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
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
One schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
- Thomas (Tom)
Paine (1737-1809), English philosopher, pictured right,
No 36
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: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard
Keynes (1883-1946), English economist, pictured right,
No 38
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
(Casca in Julius Caesar)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 39
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
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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