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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
Sep 29, 2025
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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.
[on education] 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.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
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.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
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."
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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 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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.