Education Quotes

"We need a pedagogy of becoming, not of being."

"To teach is to open oneself to the incalculable other."

"The purpose of a university is not to make functional citizens but to educate human beings."

"Moral reasoning requires the cultivation of habituation and practice."

"Education ought to form character, not merely transmit information."

"Virtue cannot be taught as abstract doctrine but only cultivated through practice."

"Moral education is the formation of desire, emotion, and will toward the good."

"Teaching is the art of awakening consciousness in others; it is fundamentally about freedom."

"Education should teach people to think critically about power and their place in society."

"The child's perception is not a defective version of adult perception; it is different."

"We learn to understand the world through our body's commerce with it."

"A just system requires that all have genuine opportunity to develop and exercise their talents."

"Citizens in well-ordered societies develop a mature sense of justice through socialization."

"Language is a social art which we all acquire on the evidence solely of other people's overt behavior."

"Language is learned through stimulus and response, not through the apprehension of eternal truths."

"We do not learn language by ostensive definition but through complex networks of associations."

"Stimulus and response are connected through learned dispositions, not innate essences."

"Criticism of my views is welcome. What is not welcome is ignorance."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

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

"To teach is to learn twice."

"The teacher's role is not to fill empty vessels but to awaken consciousness."

"Without tradition and without the formation provided by initiation into a tradition, we cannot flourish."

"A craft is only learnable and teachable within the context of a tradition."

"The concept of moral education presupposes an account of human flourishing."

"We inherit not just language but also moral concepts and traditions of practice."

"The loss of teleological thinking has made genuine moral education impossible."

"A man who cannot punctuate cannot think."

"To understand a word, look to its use."

"Education should teach how to think, not what to think."