To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Interpretation
Einstein criticizes educational systems that rely on fear and authority, arguing they harm students' self-esteem and critical thinking.
In this quote, Albert Einstein expresses his disdain for educational institutions that use fear, coercion, and authoritarian methods in teaching. He believes such an approach undermines students' natural feelings of sincerity and self-confidence, ultimately creating submissive individuals rather than fostering independent thinkers. Einstein advocates for an educational environment that nurtures authentic sentiments and encourages self-discovery, rather than one that stifles creativity and critical thought through oppressive methods.
In practice
Discussing educational reforms in a panel discussion.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, _x000D_ but no mouse would ever construct _x000D_ a mousetrap.
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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