Education Quotes

"A culture of silence cannot produce the conditions for learning."

"The conquest of the world through education is possible only when education itself becomes humanistic."

"To educate is not to transfer knowledge, but to create the conditions for its production."

"An education system that does not teach people to think is an instrument of oppression."

"The child is naturally drawn to order, and this is something we must respect and nurture."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparent' pleasure in expression and 'apparent' creativity in thinking."

"Our task is not to create a perfect society, but to help each child realize their fullest potential."

"We must prevent the obstacles and prepare the paths for their development."

"A people can be enslaved for generations without losing their humanity, but when education abandons them, they are truly lost."

"The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... it is a relation of absorption."

"To make the child follow our discipline as submissively as possible, we have arranged a system calculated to make him despotic."

"The principles of true teaching must spring from the eternal principles by which all mankind has sought the betterment of life."

"The environment is best described as a 'prepared environment', one which has been carefully calculated to assist the child's development."

"Obedience is not a natural condition of childhood."

"The child must make his own discoveries, and we should provide the material, but be careful not to make the discoveries ourselves."

"The child is truly a miraculous being, but the miracles come about only when there has been the proper preparation."

"The child's absorbent mind is one of the wonders of nature. The child absorbs his environment and becomes himself."

"Movement is a fundamental need of the developing child, not an incidental activity."

"The child's life is entirely bound up with doing. Through doing, the child understands, acquires knowledge, and develops mentally."

"The true teacher is one who leads the child to knowledge, not one who pours knowledge into the child."

"Education should be a system of supports, not a system of constraints."

"When you have really taught a child, you will find the entire universe in that one human being."

"Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, but to touch his heart."

"The task of education is to transform the child into a spiritual being, a universal human being."

"We must understand that the small child is someone who has not yet become himself fully."

"The education which serves the progress of civilization aims at fulfilling needs and developing talents."

"I have studied the child; I have given myself to the observation of childhood."

"The formation of man is something so important that it must not be left to chance."

"We cannot speak of democracy if we have not prepared the coming generation to possess the knowledge essential to their task."