30(+1) Thought-Provoking and Controversial Educational Quotes to get you Thinking

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In a previous post I shares 101 motivational quotes for students and learners. Today I want to share with you 30 thought-provoking and controversial educational quotes. Since the institution of education and spoken words, as old as time, there has been diverse school of thought regarding the impact of formal and self education to individual lives. With economic recession, high graduate unemployment and the general perception of higher education, some of these quotes will challenge you to approach and threat your education from a different perspective.

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Ponder over these educational quotes and see how it relates to your current educational status. But before you get reading, remember the Chinese proverb; If you believe everything you read, better don’t read at all.

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1. This is the mark of an educated mind: to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

2. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G.K. Chesterton

3. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

4. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

5. You can never be overdressed or overeducated

Oscar Wilde

6. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

7. [Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

8. Whatever the price of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Walter Cronkite

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

Robert Frost

10. You know sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s.

Bill Watterson

11. Education is not to teach you but to awaken you.

Anonymous

12. Education: the part from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

13. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

14. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

15. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

16. Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci

17. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Augustine of Hippo

18. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C.S. Lewis

19. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Bronte

20. Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this; “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself – educating your own judgments. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

Doris Lessing

21. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

22. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

Aristotle

23. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Michel Legrand

24. Children must be taught how to think and not what to think.

Margaret Mead

25. A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Nelson Mandela

26. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

27. Education consists mainly of what you have unlearned.

Mark Twain

28. Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on

Terry Pratchett

29. Marriage can wait; education cannot.

Khaled Hosseini

30. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

31. The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

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