Education Quotes - Page 9

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.