Malcolm Little, known as Malcolm X, US civil rights activist (1926-1965)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela, South African statesman (b. 1918)
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers, US actor, humorist (1879-1935)
If you think education is expensive – try ignorance.
Derek Bok, US lawyer, educator (b. 1930)
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham, British jurist, politician (1778-1868)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle, Greek philosopher, scientist, physician (384-322 BC)
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein, German physicist (1879-1955)
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein, German physicist (1879-1955)
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, essayist (1856-1950)
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker, US management author (1909-2005)
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn, US motivational speaker, author (1930-2009)
Learning you get from school. Education you get from life.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, US author (1835-1910)
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon, British historian (1737-1749)
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben Jonson, English dramatist, poet (1572-1637)
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling.
Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, analytical psychologist (1876-1961)
A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams, US historian (1838-1918)
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Ward, British author, theologian (1812-1882)
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued by a lifetime desire to know it.
William Haley, British editor, Director General of the BBC (1901-1987)
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese proverb
Everybody should have an equal chance – but all should have a flying start.
Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1916-1995)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H G Wells, British author, journalist (1866-1946)
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a mans knows at twenty are no longer true at forty – and half the things he knows at forty hadn’t been discovered when he was twenty?
Arthur C Clarke, British author (1917-2008)
Education can no longer be confined to the schools. Every employing institution has to become a teacher.
Peter Drucker, US management author (1909-2005)
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.
John Ruskin, British author, art critic (1819-1900)
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately they don’t have a J.O.B.
Antoine Dominique ‘Fats’ Domino, US singer, pianist, composer (b. 1928)
Empowerment
Almost every organisation I have ever worked with claims to place a high value on empowerment. Almost none really means it.
Will Schutz, US psychologist, author (1925-2002)
A leader must not only be willing to give opportunity to others, but must be in the business of creating opportunity for others.
William Terrell Hodges, US federal judge (b. 1934)
Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S Patton, US general (1885-1945)
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere.
Ronald Reagan, US President, actor (1911-2004)
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Steve Jobs, US executive, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc (b. 1955)
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt, US President (1858-1919)
Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself.
Tombstone of Andrew Carnegie, British industrialist, philanthropist (1835-1919)
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A Manske Jr, US management author
The ultimate motivational empowerment question: Could you show me how to do that?
David Firth, British management author (b. 1949)
Proper leadership empowers the workforce. An empowered workforce means one that’s committed, that feels they’re learning, that they’re competent. They have a sense of human bond, a sense of community, a sense of meaning in their work.
Warren Bennis, US academic, management author (b. 1925)
As the walls come down, we can master change by sharing a common set of goals and purposes, by giving people the data they need so they can guide and direct their own actions.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, US academic, management author (b. 1943)
Participation is not empowerment.
Daniel Quinn Mills, US academic management author (b. 1941)