Quotes on “education”

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught