Quotes on Educational

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

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.

What did you ASK at school today?

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

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Human beings are curious by nature.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

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?

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.