Quotes on Education

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.