147 quotes
transmission of knowledge and skills
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."
— Magic Johnson
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
— W.B. Yeats
"The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior."
— Stephen Covey
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
— Malcolm X
"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world."
"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."
— Malala Yousafzai
"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."
"Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons."
"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
— Confucius
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
— Spinoza
"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
— Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."
— B.F. Skinner
"We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading."
"Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
— Alexander Pope
"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
— Einstein
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
— Alain de Botton
"Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment."
— Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny."
— Charles Barkley
"Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process."
— Andre Agassi