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I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
Sep 30, 2025
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
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.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
[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.
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.
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.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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.
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 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.
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.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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