Education Quotes That Are… The Most Famous Education Quotes TrenforĮveryone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. John Lockeĭon’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Edwards DemingĮducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. SocratesĮducation would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Johann Wolfgang von Goetheįree education is abundant, all over the Internet. Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. The giving of love is an education in itself. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Maxime LagacéĪ mind is a terrible thing to waste. The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning.
Related: knowledge, learning, teacher The Best Education Quotes The highest result of education is tolerance. The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. He is loyal to those who are good to him he bites those who ill-treat him or his friends, and he's not embarrassed to do what he does to live.A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The dog is honest he is not impressed by grand words, fancy clothes, or titles. When invited to the house of Plato, he trampled upon his carpet, saying that he thereby trampled on the vanity of Plato, to which Plato retorted "How much pride you expose to view, Diogenes, by seeming not to be proud."ĭiogenes claimed to have gotten his morality from a dog, and would supposedly really bite at people's ankles.
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Coming up to him, Plato said, "My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to Dionysius, you wouldn't have to wash vegetables." "And," replied Diogenes, "If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn't have to pay court to Dionysius." When Plato gave Socrates's definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man." After this incident, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition.ĭiogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato's head with his finger, said "I think you will find here is the 'emptiness'". "Where is the 'emptiness' which precedes this empty cup?" asked Diogenes. "That's because you have the eyes to see the cup," said Plato, "but", tapping his head with his forefinger, "you don't have the intellect with which to comprehend 'cupness'."ĭiogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup and, looking inside, asked, "Is it empty?" Plato nodded. "I can see the cups on the table," said Diogenes, "but I can't see the 'cupness'". Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one 'idea' of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups. Diogenes and Plato had several run-ins, which have sort of been passed down through the ages (so who knows how much of it is real).
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