Education Quotes

"Experience and education cannot be directly transferred from one person to another."

"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

"The active occupations of adults should afford models which children naturally wish to imitate."

"The measure of the excellence of a school is in the degree to which it creates a desire for continued growth."

"The more truly genuine the education, the more does it deal with actual life-experiences."

"The real object of education is to have a person in the condition of continually asking questions."

"The great tradition of institutional education works against the student's capacity for genuine thinking."

"The real question for the educator is how to make abstract ideas concrete and meaningful."

"The school is fundamentally a mode of community life."

"The principle of habit is the platform upon which all education builds."

"The school should be where children learn to live together."

"Moral education is the greatest and most fundamental duty of a teacher."

"The mind of the learner should be the starting point of all education."

"Education is the process of becoming"

"The journey from ignorance to knowledge is the human condition"

"Education is the most effective means of improving mankind."

"A man is not truly educated until he can think for himself."

"The mind must be cultivated like a garden."

"Education is the practice of freedom, the means by which people deal with reality and discover how to transform it."

"The task of the dialogical teacher is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge."

"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world."

"Whoever teaches must not stop being a student."

"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction."

"Banking education treats students as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge."

"The more education serves the purposes of adaptation, the less it serves the purposes of liberation."

"Adults are no different from children. Learning is always about becoming."

"Critical thinking is aroused by the questioning attitude."

"The greatest gift the teacher can give is the courage to question."

"Conscientization happens through dialogue, never through monologue."