Quotes on Adult Education

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.