Quotes on Education

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.