Quotes on Schools And Education

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

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

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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.