Henry Jayakaran > Henry's Quotes

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
― Bill Watterson

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
― Charles Schultz

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford