True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
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.
There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.
Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls. . . . Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.
The road to being somebody in this society starts with education.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
