Quotes on Education

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.