Quotes on “education”

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.