Quotes on “education”

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.