One Hundred Thirteen

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. – Aristotle

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. – William Ellery Channing

One Hundred Twelve

In the nurturing family... parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say. – Virginia Satir

One Hundred Eleven

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. – Jacques Barzun

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

One Hundred Ten

Your work may be finished someday, but your education, never.
– Alexandre Dumas

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori

One Hundred Nine

For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening. – Laurent A. Daloz

One Hundred Eight

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country. – Abigail Adams

Let it be lost on no one that one of the most important jobs in this country is teaching. Teachers can influence and motivate an entire generation. – Abigail Van Buren

One Hundred Seven

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades – some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when – I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again. – Mary Kay Blakely

One Hundred Six

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
– Mortimer Adler

One Hundred Five

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

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living. – James Mason Wood

One Hundred Four

Make-believe is the avenue to much of the young child’s early understanding. He sorts out impressions and tries out ideas that are foundational to his later realistic comprehension. This private world sometimes is a quiet, solitary world. More often it is a noisy, busy, crowded place where language grows, and social skills develop, and where perseverance and attention-span expand.
– James L. Hymes, Jr.

One Hundred Three

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Brooks Adams

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
– Jean de La Fontaine

One Hundred Two

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
– Lord Chesterfield

One Hundred One

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

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 rocks.
– Charlotte Bronte

One Hundred

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
– Anatole France

Ninety-Nine

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. – Epictetus

Ninety-Eight

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. – Gunnar Myrdal

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education. – John Dewey

Ninety-Seven

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. – Jerome Bruner

Ninety-Six

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.– Aristotle

An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself. – Sydney Wood

Ninety-Five

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Pablo Casals

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein

Ninety-Four

As a product of the public education system, I want all American students to have what I had – access to a quality education that enables them to pursue any career they wish, and take on any challenge they choose. – Richard Riley

Ninety-Three

If you think education is expensive – try ignorance. – Derek Bok

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.– Mark Twain