Education Quotes

"We must challenge the narratives through which we understand ourselves."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics."

"I am a firm believer in the power of habit to shape our character."

"Each creature, no matter how small, has something to teach us."

"Education is not about filling empty vessels; it is about awakening attention."

"We must learn to think differently about corporeality."

"We must learn to read the body as a text of culture."

"We need to develop new forms of literacy for the posthuman world."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice"

"In the matter of education, I can only say that I have not had any"

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

"Knowledge production is an act of world-making."

"Education is the practice of freedom, not the transfer of knowledge."

"Pedagogy involves the transmission of desires as much as knowledge."

"We must learn to think with our hands as well as our minds."

"Questioning is more important than answering."

"We must become competent in the languages of our kin."

"Thinking is a practice of becoming; it changes the thinker."

"Education should teach us to question, not merely to accept."

"Education at its best teaches us to think for ourselves, not to think like others."

"Embodiment teaches us that knowledge is always situated and perspectival."

"We need to think about education as a lifelong process of becoming."

"The study of law sharpens the mind and elevates the spirit."

"The mind, when properly educated, becomes the greatest tool of progress."

"Education is the investment that yields returns across generations."

"We must learn to think with and through our embodied experiences"

"We must think across disciplinary boundaries to address complex problems"