Quotes on What Is 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.

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

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

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.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true 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.

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.

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.

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

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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.

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

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

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.