Education Quotes

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think" "Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action" "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading" "The educator has the duty of not being neutral" "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." "There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge." "The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser." "The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge" "The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator." "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." "If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children" "I have always thought that religion has nothing useful to teach us" "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about" "The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover" "Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves" "The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write" "The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves" "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." "The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today" "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it"