Quotes on School Education

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

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.

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.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.