Quotes About Education

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely

In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.