Education Quotes #1
Albert Einstein
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate 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.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Plato
Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Chuang Tzu
Reward and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Oscar Wilde
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Winston Churchill
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
Woody Allen
I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.
Dolly Parton
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Finley Peter Dunne
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
Thomas Edison
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Benjamin Franklin
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
H. L. Mencken
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
George Saville, Marquis of Hallifax
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Joseph Stalin (Hmmm, a supporter of compulsory schooling.)
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.