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I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?
Sep 17, 2025
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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.
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.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.