Quotes on “education”

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.