Lao Tzu Quotes on Education (8 Quotes)

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say We have done this ourselves.

... learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.