Education

The surest way to make it hard for children is to make it easy for them.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.

--Albert Einstein

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

--Abraham Lincoln

Chance favors the prepared mind.

--Louis Pasteur

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

--Andrew Carnegie

What children need perhaps more than anything is discipline, and a sense of commitment to something larger than themselves.

--Robert Coles

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

--Vince Lombardi

What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The important thing is to use it well.

--Rene Descartes

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

--Samuel Johnson

Personally, I am always willing to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

--Winston Churchill

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

--Agnes Repplier

A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe.

--N. J. Berrill

The teacher who attempts to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

--Horace Mann

I'm not young enough to know everything.

--James M. Barrie

The curriculum should not clutter the air. It should clear it for creativity.

--Applegate, Easy in English

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

--William Allen White

He is educated who knows where to find out what he doesn't know.

--Georg Simmel

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

--Janet Erskine Stuart

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

--Chinese proverb

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

--William Feather

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

--Epictetus, Discourses (55 AD-135 AD)

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

--Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)