Quotes About Education

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be 'wrong', which is what our education encourages us to believe.

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ's hands.

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.