Education Quotes

"Education for liberation demands critical engagement with dominant ideologies and their hidden assumptions."

"Education is the inculcation of established paradigms."

"We inherit paradigms as surely as we inherit our native language."

"The young scientist must learn the tricks of the trade."

"The young scientist must first be enculturated into the paradigm."

"Scientific communities maintain paradigms through education."

"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."

"The purpose of education is not to fill a bucket, but to light a fire."

"Students are alive and teachers are dead."

"Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of greatness."

"Education is the process of absorbing the culture in which you live."

"The child learns language through lived experience, not abstract rules."

"We learn to see by looking, not by thinking about sight."

"The child's perception is not inferior but different from the adult's."

"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it."

"We learn through our mistakes."

"The growth of knowledge is the discovery of our ignorance."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"We learn best through dialogue and debate."

"Education should be about the liberation of thought, not its imprisonment."

"The best education makes you a better questioner, not a better answerer."

"To understand a concept is to know how it connects to others."

"Understanding requires seeing how beliefs fit into systematic wholes."

"Language learning depends on analogy and imitation, not innate rules."

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

"The education system is really designed to marginalize the poor and to give the rich the resources they need to dominate."

"Success in education is measured by the ability to think independently."

"Education should free the mind, not confine it."

"The greatest gift is teaching someone to think critically."

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."