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 Quotes on
Education
 Importance
of education
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
Treasure....
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb
A
true one
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Ariel Durant
Scholar
vs. Martyr
The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr.
Islamic Saying
The
two kinds...
Knowledge is of two kinds- that which is absorbed and that which is just
heard. The one that is heard does not give benefit unless it is
absorbed.
Islamic Saying
Stretched
mind
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Education...
Life's an open book and an education helps you write success stories.
Joyce A. Myers
Educated
vs. uneducated
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
Best
provision
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
As
a growing agent
Education sows not seeds in you , but makes your seeds grow.
Khalil Gibran
Exercise
of mind
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the
exercise of his mind.
Jacques Martin Barzun
Natural
curiosity
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Sense
of curiosity
A sense of curiosity is Nature's original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
As
a guide
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of the nature.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Don't
use compulsion
Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of
amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the
child.
Platoe
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