Quotes About Education

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

That's what education should be, I said, the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

All learning has an emotional base.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.