Education Quotes

"Books were my pass to personal freedom." "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason" "Knowledge is power" "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." "Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you" "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" "I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing" "The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior" "The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider" "By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own" "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?" "Three keys to success: read, read and read" "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge" "We are trying to build a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet" "I think that the biggest thing that Wikipedia has accomplished is providing access to knowledge to millions of people who didn't have it before" "Nine tenths of education is encouragement" "When adversity hits, go out and learn something" "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"