Quotes on Education System

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

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

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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

The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.