Education Quotes

"The test of a well-educated person is that they have become an instrument of valuable service to society."

"Education is the cultivation of the human spirit."

"Education awakens the human potential."

"Language is a tool for communication; we must sharpen it to avoid confusion."

"Education should teach people to think precisely, not to accept dogma."

"The growth of knowledge depends upon the continual criticism and refinement of concepts."

"Every generation must reexamine fundamental concepts to guard against inherited confusions."

"We progress by replacing loose thinking with rigorous analysis."

"One cannot think without speaking."

"One might say: the ostensive definition explains the use—the meaning—of the word when the overall role of the word in language is clear."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose."

"One must always be ready to start thinking at any moment."

"The highest type of man, to my mind, is the scholarly man."

"Ideas are not inherited; they are acquired by thought."

"Education is an ongoing experience."

"The natural attitude blinds us to the structures of consciousness itself."

"To philosophize is to learn how to see again, like a child."

"The natural attitude is a kind of sleep from which philosophy awakens us."

"Understanding requires that we move beyond description to the grasping of essences."

"Knowledge is not a possession but an ongoing process of clarification."

"The transition from the natural attitude to the phenomenological attitude is a rebirth."

"Language is a medium through which consciousness structures itself and the world."

"We must learn to see the familiar as strange in order to understand it."

"Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves."

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"The most thought-provoking is that we are still not thinking deeply."

"To think, we must learn to unlearn what we thought we knew."

"The most dangerous thing is the belief that we already understand."

"Genuine thinking is rarer than genuine feeling; we must learn to think."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."