Education Quotes - Page 19

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

Education is not just going through some structured systems and getting degrees. It is more about beautification of the heart and the world.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.