Pope Francis Quotes

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

Education is an admirable thing.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

It is never too late to learn.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.