Children & Young People

"Education is the Most Powerful Weapon we can use to change the world". —Nelson Mandela

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare it for today". —Malcolm X

"He who is afraid of asking is afraid of learning". —Danish Proverb

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself". —John Dewey

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom". —George Washington

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change". —Carl Rogers

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next". —Abraham Lincoln

"The task of education must be fundamentally to ensure that knowledge serves to further the cause of human happiness and peace". —Daisaku Ikeda

"A person's a person, no matter how small". —Dr Seuss

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see". —John Whitehead

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be". —William Shakespeare

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence". —Denis Waitley

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". —Pablo Picasso

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist". —Maria Montessori

"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best". —Paul Valery

"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin". —Ivan Pavlov

"Education survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten". —B.F. Skinner

"There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding". —Erik Erikson

"Much learning does not teach understanding". —Heraclitus

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools". —Martin Luther King Jr.