Quotes About Education

You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year.

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Education and the warm heart–if you combine these two, then your education, your knowledge, will be constructive. You are yourself then becoming a happy person.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Someone who doesn't know history, he says, is "in the literal sense half-witted . . . He does not know what half his own words mean, or what half his own actions signify.

Politicians now think they have to educate the electorate and explain to them what is good for them. Gone are the days when the electorate educated their representatives .

The two first facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. . . . [A]ll

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their common sense.

when I say that children should be taught to think I do not mean (like many moderns) that they should be taught to doubt; for the two processes are not only not the same, but are in many ways opposite. To doubt is only to destroy; to think is to create.

In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The

What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.

Because so large a portion of our fellow human beings articulate their own meaning, purpose, and values through their religions, it is essential that our children know as much as possible about those religions.

unquestioning obedience to "absolute" rules—turns out to be the single least productive thing we can do for our children's moral development.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide.

Just remember, education (providing leadership for your kids as they learn life skills) is different from indoctrination (pouring ideas into their heads without inviting critical examination).

The main goal of education should always be to learn how to learn, to become an independent thinker.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

He would be an educational exhibit. People wouldn't learn much about the anatomy from him but they would learn all there was to know about war. That would be a great thing to concentrate war into one stump of a body and to show it to people so they could see the difference between a war that's in the newspaper headlines and liberty loan drives and a war that is fought out lonesomely in the mud somewhere a war between man and a high explosive shell.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Ignorance breeds superstition.

Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.

Jail is preschool. Prison is for those earning a Ph.D. in brutality.

Regard the books,' Sinderman said, 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' (asked Loken) 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man...