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Education Quotes
"Education opens our minds eye to see the world with our own unique vision and perception."
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"It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones."
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"The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.A fool's mind judges a book by its title."
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"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
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"Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation."
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"Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise."
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"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky."
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"Education must be an equal opportunity for all."
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"Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it."
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"An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that's owned by a so-called dropout."
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"He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry."
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"The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is 'doing' his 'English prep' and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all."
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"The ultimate purpose of education is to improve the power of your imagination and to change your vision."
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"Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind's endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes dependent on the system and starts trusting the system more than the internal faculties of the mind, the very element of education fades away from the system."
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"We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity."
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"Is it more important for you to know the science of planets and of sea life, or is it more important to learn the science of happiness, loving relationships, positive parenting and becoming rich? Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?"
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"Is it more important for you to know who created which mathematical theorem or to memorize formulas which you will never use, or is it more important to learn how to add happiness, peace, love, and money - and how to subtract negative emotions? Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?"
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"Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did."
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"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
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"Education provide enlightenment for one's life."
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"Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians' heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
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"Be a life-long learner. Whether you are seeking to achieve peace and harmony, learn a new technology to do your work faster, or design a strategy to blow your competitors out of the water, retraining is a pivotal way to strengthen your knowledge and realize your goals."
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"The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation."
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"Knowledge is a priceless gift of enlightenment."
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"Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend."
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"Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment."
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"To be free, get an education. To be happy, spread compassion."
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"Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends."
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"Education is a process of unlearning and learning."
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"Invest in studies which encourages you to invest in people."
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"Math is made for idiots, here is what is the proccess in math class. The teacher show you few exercises, show you the formula, show you the way, say everything about the exercises and then she tell you to solve problems. So as for me the proccess is REPEAT!"
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"The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions."
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