Alfie Says…
“I love quotes, especially inspirational ones or those about education. Below are a selection of my favourites.
If you have a great quote to share with me please email it, along with your name and your age, to”: mark@alfiepotts.com
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Alfie’s Favourite Quotes on Education:
“Formal education will make you a living; self -education will make you a fortune”….Jim Rohn
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”…...Derek Bok
“In school they taught me who said ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ but they didn’t teach me what the answer was”….Alfie Potts
“Never let schooling get in the way of your education”….Mark Twain
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one”….Malcolm Forbes
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men”….Bill Beattie
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change”….Carl Rogers
“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open”….Harry Edwards
“At school they teach me which direction migrating birds go, but not which direction I should go!”….Alfie Potts
“An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life”….Anon
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary”….Thomas Carruthers
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children”….Charles R. Swindoll
“Life, love, and laughter – what priceless gifts to give our children”….Phyllis Dryden
“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open”….Harry Edwards
“Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say”….Wayne Dyer
“Children have more need of models than of critics”….Joseph Joubert
“If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals”….Lillian Carter
“The whole object of education is…to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works”…..Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
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Alfie’s Favourite Inspirational Quotes
“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings”….Brian Tracy
”Every child is born a genius”…. Richard Buckminster Fuller
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse”…. Jim Rohn
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd”….Max Lucado
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you”….Jim Rohn
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”….Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small”…..Tim Ferriss
“Measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals”…..Booker T Washington
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant”….Robert Louis Stevenson
“Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul”…..Walt Whitman
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion”….Alexander the Great
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him”…..David Brinkley
