Education Quotes

"Language games are learned through participation, not merely through theoretical study."

"To be truly educated is to understand the limitations of one's own perspective."

"Education should teach us not what to think, but how to think for ourselves."

"The more education becomes rationalized and instrumental, the less it educates."

"The most important task of the intellectual is to keep alive the spirit of critical inquiry."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough to give them the world."

"A society must guarantee that all citizens have genuine opportunities to develop and exercise their capacities."

"The fair equality of opportunity principle requires removing background inequalities in education and resources."

"The stability of democratic institutions depends on cultivating citizens' sense of justice."

"Justice requires that institutions sustain the conditions for all citizens to develop their moral capacities."

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

"Concrete experience is the basis of all learning."

"Education cultivates the human potential."

"Man can become man only by education."

"The most important thing is to educate oneself."

"The great gift of education is the acquisition of habits."

"Quality of intellect is in direct proportion to the breadth of vision."

"Man can only become truly human by education."

"Enlightenment, widely disseminated, reverts to mythology when it forgets its own critical impulse."

"The mark of enlightenment is the willingness to be wrong, to revise, to negate what came before."

"Enlightenment becomes its opposite when it forecloses the possibility of different futures."

"Enlightenment was supposed to liberate us from myth, yet it created new myths of progress and reason."

"Education is not merely the transmission of knowledge but the creation of conditions for the growth of thought."

"The purpose of thought is not to arrive at answers but to think more clearly about questions."

"The person who reads is the person who thinks, and the person who thinks is the person who is free."

"Thoughtlessness is the mark of all tyranny."

"Thinking is dangerous to those in power."

"Education is the discipline that transforms natural impulses into rational ones."

"Education cultivates the capacity to think universally about particular cases."