Education Quotes - Page 17

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

All of life is a constant education.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.