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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Sep 10, 2025
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
When one teaches, two learn.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
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.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.