Education Quotes

"Fair equality of opportunity requires not only preventing discrimination but actively promoting equal access to education and positions."

"Democratic citizens must develop the intellectual and moral capacities necessary for effective political participation."

"Citizens should be educated to understand both the reasons for social institutions and their own role in maintaining them."

"Citizens in a constitutional democracy should be educated to understand how their basic institutions serve justice."

"A just basic structure provides all citizens with the resources and opportunities necessary to develop their capacities."

"We are not born with fixed ideas. Ideas are born in us."

"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it."

"We should never stop asking why."

"We are all both students and teachers."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"The crisis of European sciences stems from forgetting the lifeworld."

"Every science rests on the lifeworld."

"Phenomenology begins with wonder about what we think we know."

"The most exacting demand is that we ourselves think."

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

"The school is the most important means of bringing about the improvement which society needs."

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking."

"The great tradition of public schools is thus justified."

"The individual mind can be trained to think; it may be retrained."

"What is the sign of a successful school? It is a place where three teachers are made each year."

"Successful education is a reconstruction of experience."

"The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself."

"There is an intimate connection between the process of actual experience and education."

"Genuine learning is active rather than passive."

"A teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals, but in the formation of the proper social life."

"True education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations."

"An educational system is a mechanism for the perpetuation of society."

"A teacher's awareness of knowledge that is not written or explicitly taught is crucial."

"The experience of life itself, appropriately understood, is the chief educational resource."

"We learn by doing."