Famous quotes on education

March 24, 2013 11:52 am | Updated November 17, 2021 12:24 pm IST

The Kennedy Smile - as shown by brothers, Attorney General Robert Kennedy (left) and US President John Kennedy, as they stand shoulder to shoulder at a White House ceremony on May 15, 1963.Photo: The Hindu Archives

The Kennedy Smile - as shown by brothers, Attorney General Robert Kennedy (left) and US President John Kennedy, as they stand shoulder to shoulder at a White House ceremony on May 15, 1963.Photo: The Hindu Archives

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not. Thomas Henry Huxley

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy

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

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. John Adams

The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself John Dewey

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. J. Krishnamurti

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