Great Quotes about Education

Here are some Great quotes I came across while doing some rasearch. They are all quotes about education. Enjoy! These quotes are from Alternative Education India.


"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten"
B. F. Skinner
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"Education is not something which the teacher does ... it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being"
Maria Montessori
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"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"
Malcolm S. Forbes
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"You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you ... you are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth ..."
from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think"
Socrates
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"What generally happens is that guardians become so tired taking care of the child that they feel a great burden lifted from their shoulders when the child goes to school... they think 'I would be happier if the child were away for a while' but they only think so because they do not know what a great opportunity it is to begin to train and guide a child. It is an opportunity for its whole life; and if a guardian misses it, it means a loss to the child."
from The Sufi Message of Inyat Khan, Vol III
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"You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves"
Galileo
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"There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. In prison they may torture your body but they do not torture your brains"
George Bernard Shaw
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"
Mark Twain
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"Children who are forced to eat acquire a loathing for food and children who are forced to learn acquire a loathing for knowledge"
Bertrand Russell
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"From my grandfather's father, [I learned] to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent"
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Roman Emperor 2nd Century AD)
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"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school"
Margaret Mead
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"What are you educated for, anyway? You may be a sociologist, an anthropologist, or a scientist, with your specialised mind working away at a fragment of the whole field of life. You are filled with knowledge and words, with capable explanations and rationalisations. And perhaps in the future the computer will be able to do all this infinitely better than you can."
"So education may have a different meaning altogether - not merely transferring what is printed on a page to your brain. Education may mean opening the doors of perception to the vast movement of life. It may mean learning how to live happily, freely, without hate and confusion but in beatitude. Modern education is blinding us: we learn to fight each other more and more, to compete, to struggle with each other. Right education is surely finding a different way of life, setting the mind free of its own conditioning. And perhaps there can be love which in its action will bring about true relationship between man and man"
from Five Conversations by J Krishnamurti
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"....since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned"
John Holt
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"Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life"
John Rogers
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"The principle goal of education is to create men and woman who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done"
Jean Piaget
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"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 very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food ... handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly"
Albert Einstein
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is"
Isaac Asimov
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