Quotes About Education

In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

To have a master and teacher is not the same thing as being mastered and taught.

Student: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler: Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test.

second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly defined skill or trade, with no emphasis on artistic creativity. Teachers

an art academy, (2) a technical trade school, (3) a monastery or religious retreat, and (4) a university college. I shall spell out the theoretical implications of these models, the

indoctrination rather

paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the "quality of life" in psychoanalytic education. Members

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

A man's real nature is never altered by education.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.

I was fifteen when I left school. And what did I get to show for my ten years in the British education system? A piece of paper which said: John Osbourne attended Birchfield Road Secondary Modern. Signed, Mr Oldham (Headmaster) That was f**king it. Not a single qualification. Nothing. I had two career choices: manual labour or manual labour.

I hated school. Hated it.

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