Educational Philosophy Quotes

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

You are learner. With diligent practice, you will be an expert.

I will finish what I have began.

We will never fail. We shall fulfil the dream.

With great passion, observe every details of the sacred journey.

Imagination is a reality.

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ we seemto have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to not have anything to do with matters of the spirit. Education has, therefore, become concerned only with matters of material life (eventually leading to commodification)... This dichotomy between 'education for social success' and education for spirit' must go if we want to make Indian Education more relevant for the future of India. Education needs to become more integral, more complete through a meaningful synthesis of the two.

When you believe, incredible things happen. You set divine forces into motion.

Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

Every one’s footprint is a landmark in the world history

Eternity exist in a holy time.

What matters is not how long it takes but the grace of fulfilled dream.

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically literate democracy, and even suggests a statement of purpose for it (a surprisingly elusive principle in higher education today). The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to implant abstract statements in empty minds but by taking the mental models that are our standard equipment, applying them to new subjects in selective analogies, and assembling them into new and more sophisticated combinations.

Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.

The dawn of light is the liberation of souls.

Imagination is manifest of thoughts by divine force.

Be firm with your decisions.

Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old, towards their activities, and into (or against) their institutions; and the old foster, teach, train, exploit and abuse the young. Even neglect of the young, except physical neglect, has an educational effect -- not the worst possible.

Be strong and begin again!

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you’d probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science.

Dare to reach beyond the stars.

Without the knowledge of God ,we perish.

Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.

I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogical adult,… which does not permit him to recognize as good any tendency in children to fly in the face of his conceptions of a correct human being; to recognize that may be here is something highly desirable, to be encourage, rather than destroyed as pernicious…. [Y]our teacher has usually well-defined conceptions of what men and women have to be. And if a boy is too lively, too noisy, too restless, too curious, to suit the concept, he must be trimmed and subdued.

Keep experimenting, your divine self!

I suffered,I learned,I changed

Find your passion and live it.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength.

You must dare to dream.

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

The world needs great inspirers, to ignite the light in every soul.

Take a walk with me through nature and let’s gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.

Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

Whatever you set for yourself, you can achieve it.

The fear of being yourself is the beginning of self-doubt.

Motivation enhances human worth and potential.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible.

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

Many are they who seek to guide other to the path yet they themselves are lost

Where there is life, hope prevails.

I am born to win.

Love rekindles the soul of every man.

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.

What you think of is what you will attract to your life.

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

Words are life. Positive words create positive life.

We shall always meet teachers but we shall seldom meet good teachers. We shall seldom meet a good teacher who is good enough to direct the body, mind and soul towards the path of true purposefulness. We shall hardly meet good teachers who are good enough to leave indelible and distinctive footprints in our minds; good teachers whose words, thoughts, actions and wonderful deeds would continue to reecho themselves in our minds and become the yardstick, guiding principles and reasons for the steps we take each moment of time. We shall always meet teachers but, we shall seldom and hardly meet great teachers!

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

God holds the right key to every door.