Education Quotes - Page 8

Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.