Hispanic Heritage Month 2026

Heather > Heather's Quotes

Showing 211-240 of 527
sort by

    like
  • #211
    Stanley Kubrick
    “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
    tags: education, fear, interest, learning
    940 likes

    • like
  • #212
    Brigham Young
    “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.”
    ― Brigham Young
    tags: education, learning
    278 likes

    • like
  • #213
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”
    ― Thomas Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
    tags: abyss, facts, humble, inspirational, learning, nature, open-minded, peace, peace-of-mind, preconceptions, preparation, risk, science
    336 likes

    • like
  • #214
    Martin Luther
    “I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: education, faith, religion, religion-in-schools, scripture, teaching
    264 likes

    • like
  • #215
    “part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.”
    ― Sunny Decker, An Empty Spoon
    tags: education, teaching
    51 likes

    • like
  • #216
    “The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”
    ― Sam Wineburg
    tags: education, history
    46 likes

    • like
  • #217
    Jacques Barzun
    “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
    ― Jacques Barzun
    tags: education, school, teaching, tradition
    259 likes

    • like
  • #218
    “[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.”
    ― George Turnbull, Observations upon Liberal Education
    tags: education
    5 likes

    • like
  • #219
    Woodrow Wilson
    “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    tags: american-education, class, education, sad-but-true, society, work
    47 likes

    • like
  • #220
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: character, education, morality
    1034 likes

    • like
  • #221
    Victor Hugo
    “Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: education
    1000 likes

    • like
  • #222
    Claude Bernard
    “It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
    ― Claude Bernard
    tags: education
    110 likes

    • like
  • #223
    MaryAnn F. Kohl
    “Art is a process, not a product.”
    ― maryann kohl
    tags: art, creavity, early-childhood, education
    51 likes

    • like
  • #224
    Charles Platt
    “Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”
    ― Charles Platt
    tags: education
    49 likes

    • like
  • #225
    A.S. Neill
    “The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best”
    ― A.S. Neill
    80 likes

    • like
  • #226
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: education
    2720 likes

    • like
  • #227
    Bill Watterson
    “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: education
    681 likes

    • like
  • #228
    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
    2949 likes

    • like
  • #229
    Bill Watterson
    “Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers!
    Calvin: I just don't test well.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor-education
    93 likes

    • like
  • #230
    “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
    ― Harold Howe
    tags: education, libraries, library, school
    371 likes

    • like
  • #231
    Robert Orben
    “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: education, ignorance, misattributed-derek-bok
    359 likes

    • like
  • #232
    Julia Child
    “You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: education, lifelong-learning, love
    311 likes

    • like
  • #233
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: education, initiative, self-education
    220 likes

    • like
  • #234
    You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,
    “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
    397 likes

    • like
  • #235
    Albert Einstein
    “Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education
    201 likes

    • like
  • #236
    C.S. Lewis
    “In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: concentration, distractions, education, focus
    61 likes

    • like
  • #237
    G.K. Chesterton
    “That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: education
    118 likes

    • like
  • #238
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
    tags: education, sound-judgement, truth
    50 likes

    • like
  • #239
    Herbert Spencer
    “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
    ― Herbert Spencer
    tags: education
    100 likes

    • like
  • #240
    Jostein Gaarder
    “A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: education, equality, women, women-s-rights
    382 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Heather’s Quotes

education
fear
interest
learning
abyss
facts
humble
inspirational
nature
open-minded
peace
peace-of-mind
preconceptions
preparation
risk
science
faith
religion
religion-in-schools
scripture
teaching
history
school
tradition
american-education
class
sad-but-true
society
work
character
morality
art
creavity
early-childhood
ethics
humor-education
libraries
library
ignorance
misattributed-derek-bok
lifelong-learning
love
initiative
self-education
concentration
distractions
focus
sound-judgement
truth
equality
women
women-s-rights