Quotes About Education

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

Freedom can occur only through education.

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.