What Is Education Quotes by Peter Ustinov, Tryon Edwards, Aristotle, John W. Gardner, William Ralph Inge, Margaret Mead and many others.
What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
