Quotes on Education

Nature has always had more force than education.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Don't set your wit against a child.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.