Quotes About Education

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

We are not shooting enough professors.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.