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Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
— Al Franken
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
— Plato, The Republic
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
— Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
— Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
— C.S. Lewis
Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
It doesn`t hurt to get more education.
— Donald J. Trump
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.
— Anaïs Nin
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
— Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
— Hannah Arendt
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
— Malcolm Forbes
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— George Macaulay Trevelyan
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
— Wilhelm Reich
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
— Winston S. Churchill
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...
— Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.
— Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.
— W. Edwards Deming
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
— Sharon Salzberg, The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
Art is a process, not a product.
— MaryAnn F. Kohl
Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.
— Charles Platt
The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.
— Sam Wineburg
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
— Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
— Erasmus
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.
— David Eddings, Belgarath the Sorcerer
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. 
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] ... normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.
— Noam Chomsky
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
— Victor Hugo
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
— Dylan Thomas
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
— Joseph Stalin
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
— Rabindranath Tagore
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau
[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority.
— Walter Karp
You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
— G.K. Chesterton
Education is the process of selling someone on books. 
— Douglas Wilson
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
— Scott Westerfeld, Touching Darkness
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
— Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
— John  Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Osama, baah!" Bashir roared."Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
— Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor, but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely. 
— Louise Labé
part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.
— Sunny Decker, An Empty Spoon
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
— Alice Waters
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.
— Thomas Szasz
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
— Swami Vivekananda
In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.
— Santosh Kalwar
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
— William Glasser
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
— Audre Lorde
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Those who trust us educate us.
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
— Booker T. Washington
The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
— Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.
— bell hooks
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
— Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.
— David Orr
…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
— Norton Juster
This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."It is the creed of a slave.
— John Holt, How Children Fail
You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.
— Tom Brokaw
Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.
— Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.
— Linda Perlstein
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring
— Seymour Papert
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
— Karl Marx
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
— Zhuangzi
I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.
— Rich Mullins
You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
— Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
— Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best
— A.S. Neill
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
— Abraham Lincoln
As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, a children's book, or the latest book that just about everyone is reading. No one chastises us for our choice. No one says, 'That's too short for you to read.' No one says, 'That's too easy for you, put it back.' No one says 'You couldn't read that if you tried -- it's much too difficult.'Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.
— Mem Fox, Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
Segregation shaped me education liberated me. 
— Maya Angelou
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
— Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.
— Howard W. Hunter
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.
— David McCullough
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
— Albert Einstein
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.
— Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.
— Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo, Rizal Without the Overcoat
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.
— Jonathan Sacks
I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.
— Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
— Joseph Campbell
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
— Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
— Ivan Illich
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
— B.F. Skinner
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.
— Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child's character. It is never good for anyone's character.
— John Holt
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
— John Dewey
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.
— Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French
Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
— Plato
Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
— Harry Truman
If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched hermaybe you should take a looks at your hands.
— Kaija Sabbah
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
— Tallulah Bankhead
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
— Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education
The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.
— H.L. Mencken
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
— David O. McKay
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
— David O. McKay
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
— John Maynard Keynes
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
— Gary L. Francione
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
— John Dewey, Democracy and Education
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
— Sydney J. Harris
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
— Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.
— Liz Berry, The China Garden
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
— Patricia Briggs, River Marked
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
— Jonathan Hennessey, The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
— Woodrow Wilson
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
— John Holt
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATIONso. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.
— William J. Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.
— Umberto Eco
You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.
— Santosh Kalwar
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Is he well educated?""Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day...
— Gene Stratton-Porter, Laddie: A True Blue Story
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
— George Eliot, Silas Marner
I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom... But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures – solitude, books and imagination – outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.
— Helen Keller, The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887 1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan by John Albert Macy
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
— Herbert Spencer
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
— Plato
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
— Charlotte M. Mason, The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason
An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. 
— Anthony Standen
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile 
— Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions
To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.
— Rafe Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts
As in the political sphere, the child is taught that he is free, a democrat, with a free will and a free mind, lives in a free country, makes his own decisions. At the same time he is a prisoner of the assumptions and dogmas of his time, which he does not question, because he has never been told they exist. By the time a young person has reached the age when he has to choose (we still take it for granted that a choice is inevitable) between the arts and the sciences, he often chooses the arts because he feels that here is humanity, freedom, choice. He does not know that he is already moulded by a system: he does not know that the choice itself is the result of a false dichotomy rooted in the heart of our culture. Those who do sense this, and who don't wish to subject themselves to further moulding, tend to leave, in a half-unconscious, instinctive attempt to find work where they won't be divided against themselves. With all our institutions, from the police force to academia, from medicine to politics, we give little attention to the people who leave—that process of elimination that goes on all the time and which excludes, very early, those likely to be original and reforming, leaving those attracted to a thing because that is what they are already like. A young policeman leaves the Force saying he doesn't like what he has to do. A young teacher leaves teaching, here idealism snubbed. This social mechanism goes almost unnoticed—yet it is as powerful as any in keeping our institutions rigid and oppressive.
— Doris Lessing
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
— Joseph Campbell
It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
— Doris Lessing
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
— George Seldes
Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.
— Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
— Horace Mann
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
— Mark Twain
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
— Alan Moore
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
— Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
— David  Hawkins
Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.
— Santosh Kalwar
In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge.
— Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.
— Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
— Vera Nazarian
The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?
— Charlotte M. Mason, School Education: Developing A Curriculum
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.
— Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
— Daniel Keyes
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
— Paul  Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
— John Ruskin
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
— Aldo Leopold
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
— Abraham Lincoln
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
— Russell Baker
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
— Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. You sit in each other's rooms and drink coffee - I suppose it would be vodka and Red Bull now - you share enthusiasms, you talk a lot of wank about politics, religion, art and the cosmos and then you go to bed, alone or together according to taste. I mean, how else do you learn anything, how else do you take your mind for a walk?
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)
— Besa Kosova, Raindrops
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
— Hilaire Belloc, An Essay on the Restoration of Property
Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
— Floyd Dell
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
— John Burroughs
If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.
— Søren Kierkegaard
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
— Libba Bray
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
— Alice Duer Miller
Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?
— Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.
— Kelly Gallagher, Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.
— Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak
All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.
— Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
— Albert Schweitzer
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
— Karl Marx
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
— Ken Robinson
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change