Quotes on Philosophy Of Education

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

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.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.