Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.”
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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 man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 — and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?
The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher’s lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .
One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no s
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once then he’s in.
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Try not to have a good time … This is supposed to be educational.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.
