Education Quotes

"The role of education is to develop the whole person, not just the intellect."

"Learning is best when the student discovers the truth himself, rather than having it delivered to him."

"Way too many people believe that once they graduate from school, their education is over."

"It seems to me that at its best, education is learning how to become the person you have the potential to become."

"I find myself believing that it is the function of the teacher to aid students in becoming themselves."

"I value most the learning that influences how one lives life."

"Education should teach people to think independently, not to think alike."

"The infant comes into the world as a bundle of reflexes, nothing more."

"Give me a dozen healthy infants and I can turn any one of them into a specialist."

"Reward and punishment are the scaffolding of learning."

"Speech is learned behavior developed through social interaction."

"Moral blindness occurs when we delegate our ethical judgment to others."

"Moral growth requires understanding the limits of our moral autonomy."

"What we learn from the obedience studies should reshape our understanding of morality."

"Resistance to authority becomes possible only when we recognize its power over us."

"Social pressure operates as both constraint and opportunity for human development."

"The group does not merely pressure us to conform; it teaches us what conformity even means."

"The educator must believe in the potential power of his student, and this belief itself may provide the spark of inspiration that calls forth the best effort."

"The chief evil is that the present day parent and teacher is at a loss how to exercise proper discipline."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

"Understanding the psychology of evil is essential for creating more just institutions."

"We need to teach people how to recognize and resist the subtle ways that systems corrupt us."

"Teaching people to think critically about power structures is one of the greatest gifts we can give."

"We are generally better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it."

"Don't think, look!"

"My difficulty is only an—enormous—difficulty of expression."

"You can't think foolishly unless you think."

"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that."

"This is how we have learned to think. This is the only way we do think."