Education Quotes

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."

"The mark of a civilized man is his ability to read and reflect without irritation."

"Education is the process of teaching you not to think."

"Teaching without relation is mere information."

"All genuine education is a meeting between souls."

"Obedience is not the first thing; attention is."

"To be truly educated is to have transcended the limitations of your own time."

"Education is the cultivation of authentic human becoming."

"Education is the awakening of human potential."

"The school is the dominant ideological state apparatus."

"Education is never neutral."

"Schools reproduce class divisions."

"Education teaches us how much we cannot know."

"Learning is the endless deferral of mastery."

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

"Education must nurture the whole person, not merely train the intellect."

"Education teaches us to despise what makes us human."

"All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."

"Culture and tradition must be continually rethought."

"Education must teach people to think, not what to think."

"Education is the practice of freedom."

"Education is the process of becoming human through culture."

"Education should develop critical consciousness, not merely transmit information."

"Education is the transmission of humanity to the new generation."

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

"The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to reread."

"If your child is to be fully educated, he cannot confine himself to a single subject."

"Curiosity is the very basis of education."

"The school serves as the primary apparatus for the reproduction of capitalist relations of production."

"The education system reproduces not only knowledge but social inequalities themselves."