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"The education of the will is the object of our existence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
Epictetus
"Only the educated are free."
Epictetus
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."
Ignacio Estrada
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
Edward Everett
"What did you ask at school today?"
Richard Fenyman
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
Paul Karl Feyerabend
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."
Saying Folk
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
Edward Morgan Forster
"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."
Anatole France
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Anatole France
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Benjamin Franklin
"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."
Erich Fromm
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Lee Frost
"You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself."
Galileo Galilei
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
Galileo Galilei
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."
David P(ierpont) Gardner
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