Education Quotes

"The powerful's fear of consciousness-raising reveals consciousness as a weapon."

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

"The greatest enemy of learning is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."

"We are not students of some subject matter, but students of problems. And problems may cut right across the borders of any subject matter or discipline."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."

"Knowledge without criticism is blind acceptance."

"We learn by making mistakes and by the criticism of our mistakes."

"The anthropologist's task is to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange."

"To understand a culture, one must become a student of its patterns."

"Education is the transmission not of facts but of ways of seeing."

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."

"True education involves learning to question authority."

"The purpose of education should be to create independent thinkers."

"Children are naturally curious until institutions teach them not to be."

"Education should empower people to think critically, not to obey."

"Education serves either liberation or domestication."

"Real education begins when we question what we have been taught."

"Education that does not teach critical thinking is merely training."

"The most certain way to reform men is through enlightenment."

"A nation that fails to educate its citizens will fail to thrive."

"Education is the most powerful weapon against poverty and crime."

"The best form of punishment is the prevention of crime through education."

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

"Marxism is taking root in the university precisely because the university, in the conventional sense, is ceasing to exist."

"A nation cannot accumulate wealth if it fails to invest in its children and their education."

"Knowledge cannot be transferred like a physical commodity; each man must acquire it himself."

"Whoever would attempt to educate a man in the principles of freedom must begin by teaching him to think."

"Education is the foundation upon which all progress is built."

"Education should cultivate both mind and character."

"Knowledge of how society works is not something that can be created from scratch by the planner."