Quotes on Education

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.