Education is not about filling a bucket, but about lighting a fire. —— Yeats
Education is not about making people know what they do not know, but about acting according to what they have not yet done. —— Ginsberg
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. —— Aristotle
The purpose of education is to prepare young people for lifelong self-study. —— R.M.H.
The purpose of education is to enable young people to educate themselves throughout their lives. —— Hutchins
The essence of education lies in overcoming animal instincts and developing all the unique human natures. —— Sukhomlinsky
The only work and all the work of education can be summarized in this concept: morality. —— Herbart
Educate children to see the nobility, kindness, and honesty in the beauty of the world and human relationships, and to establish these qualities within themselves. —— Sukhomlinsky
One percent of waste in the education system can cause severe losses to the nation. —— Makarenko
The whole mystery of educational technique lies in how to love children. —— Sukhomlinsky
The whole secret of educational technique lies in grasping a child's aspiration and moral self-improvement. If a child does not seek progress or strive for self-improvement, no educator can cultivate good qualities in them. However, only when the collective and teachers first recognize a child's merits will the child develop aspiration. —— Sukhomlinsky
Education can expand human intelligence. —— Horace
To educate is to form human character. —— Owen
The water of education is emotion and love. Without emotion and love, education becomes a waterless pond, hollow regardless of its shape. A teacher's broad love is the water flowing in the classroom, nourishing the students' hearts. —— Xia Gaizun
No time to educate your children means no time to be a person. —— Sukhomlinsky
Without love, there is no education. —— Sukhomlinsky
Reason and truth are common to all humans; those who speak them are no more than those who cite them. It is not more according to Plato than myself, since he saw and understood it just as I do. Bees forage from various flowers, but the honey they make is entirely their own; it is no longer thyme or oxymel. Similarly, people belong to their own works. His education, work, and research have no other purpose than to cultivate his capacity for digestion. —— Montaigne
Labor is a wonderful folk pedagogy that opens new sources of educational wisdom unknown to book theories. We believe that only through labor involving sweat, calluses, and fatigue will the human soul become sensitive and gentle. Through labor, people gain the ability to perceive the world with their soul. —— Sukhomlinsky
Worst of all is that men are unwilling to allow women to receive an education that enables them to achieve something, unwilling to let them earn a decent living through their own efforts. Their education is only for show, as if they should be loved and supported by men for life, never facing misfortune. —— Mark Twain
Educators act not for the past or the present, but specifically for the future. —— Cai Yuanpei
