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  • I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”
  • Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

  • Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

    Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4
  • And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

    "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.
  • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

    Education   Wise   Clever  
    Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337
  • If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

    Philosophy   Doors   Feet  
    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami
  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225
  • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  • It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

    Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)
  • 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.

  • With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami
  • The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

    Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.
  • A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

    Funny   Education   Art  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow
  • Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

  • Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  • Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

    Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen
  • The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

    Life   Death   Education  
    Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing
  • Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

    John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.
  • The unexamined life is not worth living.

    In Plato 'Apology' 38a
  • The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (according to Stobæus), 1922.
  • ...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

    Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”
  • What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

    The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.
  • Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken for this philosophy education should fix itself. There should be several different things taught instead of one "Supreme Factor".

    Philosophy   Law   Broken  
    "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.
  • It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

    Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press
  • The human mind is our fundamental resource.

    Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.
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