Quotes on Schools And Education

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.