Quotes about Education

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.