Quotes About Education

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.