Quotes of Instruction - somelinesforyou

“ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ”

- John Dewey

“ You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. ”

- Richard Bach

“ The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. ”

- Ezra

“ Men are still men. The despot's wickednessComes of ill teaching, and of power's excess — Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ”

- Gail Godwin

“ It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ”

- Alec Bourne

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

- Aristotle

“ The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ”

- Plato

“ An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. ”

- Anatole France

“ Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards. ”

- Vernon Sanders Law

“ The teachings of elegant sayingsShould be collected when one can.For the supreme gift of words of wisdom,Any price will be paid. ”

- Siddha Nagarjuna

“ One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ By education most have been misled; So the believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. ”

- John Dryden

“ There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. ”

- James Truslow Adams

“ We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think. ”

- Elbert Hubbard
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