Quotes About Education

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.