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Famous Quotations Spotlight - Education
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures
- Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
- George H. W. Bush - Announcement of the America 2000 Education Strategy (April 18, 1991) What Work Requires of Schools Pg 2.
- "To get the education is our right, to spread the education is our duty" - anonymous
- The real nature of education is at variance with the account given of it by certain of its professors.
- Socrates, from Plato's The Republic
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James, Principles of Psychology
- "Good teaching comes from good people."
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
- We must become just by doing just acts.
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, #4
- It is by doing good that we become good.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile
- Man must develop his tendency towards the good.
- Immanuel Kant, Thoughts on Education, #12
- In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
- Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave"
- The real nature of education is at variance with the account given of it by certain of its professors.