School Education Quotes:

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

- E. M. Forster

source: "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Running, Self Education, Good Students

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Education, Intellectual Curiosity, Intelligence And Education

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Education, Patience, Learning To Read, Bad Temper

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

- Confucius

topic: Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge 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.

- Anatole France

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Educational, You Think You Know

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

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.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Flower, Teaching, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

- Isaac Asimov

source: Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Education, Inspirational Learning, Learning Life

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspiring, Education, Art, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

topic: Education, Art, Philosophy, Mendacity, Intelligence And Education

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Graduation, Education, School, Going To College, Grad

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Liberal Education, Teacher Student

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

- Mark Twain

topic: Education, Food, Inspiration, Going Back To School, Back To College

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

- John Updike

source: John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

topic: Education, Children, Father, Founding, Unnatural

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Sex, Book, Reading, Going To College, Libraries And Librarians

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Education, Dog, School, Students And Education, Related To Education

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

- Ivan Illich

topic: Education, Believe, Learning, Self Education, Education And Freedom

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Education, Children, Learning, Homeschooling, Children And Education

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Education, Successful, Government, Education And Freedom, Government Education

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

- Robert Frost

topic: Education, Philosophy, Teaching, Hanging Around, Subjects In School

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

- Sidney Sugarman

topic: Teacher, Children, Thinking, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

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.

- William Haley

topic: Girl, School, Learning, Intelligence And Education, Leaving School

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

- G. M. Trevelyan

source: English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

topic: Education, Reading, Teaching, Methods Of Teaching, Intelligence And Education

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Life, Graduation, Going Back To School, First Day Of School

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

- James Dewar

topic: Business, Mind, Function, Alcoholics Anonymous, Open Mindedness

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

- Seymour Papert

topic: Jobs, Children, Teaching, Socialization, Infantile

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

source: 1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Teacher

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Teaching, Home, Learning, Self Education, Education And Freedom

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

- Alice Duer Miller

topic: Education, Children, Mean, Unschooling, Scholastics

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

- Deborah Meier

source: Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press

topic: Education, School, Diversity, Inspirational Education, Good Family

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.

- Jacob Bronowski

source: "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Education, Teacher, Powerful, Inspiring Education, Teacher Student

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

- Tom Bodett

topic: Life, School, Lessons, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

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.

- John Lubbock

source: "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

topic: Education, Teacher, Nature, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Nature

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

topic: Education, School, College, Unschooling, Public Education

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill (1978). “On Liberty”, Penguin Books

topic: Education, Successful, Government, Education And Freedom, Government Education

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

- Plato

topic: Plato, Mind, Compulsion, Unschooling, Education And Freedom

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Education, Teaching, School, School Education

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

- Douglas Yates

topic: Education, School, Mean, Well Educated, School Education

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. Gardner

topic: Educational, Facts, Educated, Teaching Education, School Education

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

- Marva Collins

source: Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

topic: Children, Educational, Brilliant, Children Education, Great Educational