Thomas A. Edison Quotes About School

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  • I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

  • Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

  • The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  • I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

  • Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

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Thomas A. Edison

  • Born: February 11, 1847
  • Died: October 18, 1931
  • Occupation: Inventor