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Quotes About Development

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.
~ Unknown
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
~ Heraclitus
Education is the great engine to personal development.
~ Nelson Mandela
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
~ John Dewey
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If children have interests, then education happens.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
~ Novalis
Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
~ Albert Einstein
The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.
~ John Dewey
Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
~ Allan Bloom
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
~ William Glasser
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.
~ Milton Berle
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
~ James Rowland Angell
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
~ Albert Einstein
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
An investment in education always pays the highest returns.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
~ Khalil Gibran
Education isn't a result. It's a process.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
~ George Washington