Education Quotes

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is" "Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things" "What a child can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow" "The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." "Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." "Much learning does not teach understanding" "Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves" "What's done to children, they will do to society." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." "Beware the man of a single book." "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"