Quotes on Education

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don't have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don't have basic things like water, education, health.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.