Quotes on Schooled

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

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.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

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

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.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.