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The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.
Sep 29, 2025
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.
I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is the best provision for old age.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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 know and what you don't.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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