Quotes about Education
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
— John Adams
He that wandereth out of the way of knowledge, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
— John Bunyan
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
— John Maxwell
You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.
— John Maxwell
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
— John Maxwell
The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.
— John Maxwell
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
— John Maxwell
you must be able to take the new thing you've learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.
— John Maxwell
people knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.
— John Maxwell
When I teach and mentor leaders, I remind them that if they stop learning, they stop leading
— John Maxwell
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
— John Maxwell
The Courage to Teach
— John Maxwell