Education Quotes

"You can't teach creativity; all you can do is let it blossom and encourage it." "Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience" "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes" "The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling" "The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one." "To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions must be complied with if in the future individuals are to be formed who are capable of production and creativity and not simply repetition" "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." "Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know." "Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general" "For the sake of knowledge and a better-informed public, it is necessary to celebrate a cult of the book, even and especially in these times of the book's accelerated commodification." "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago " "The child who has increased his own independence with the acquisition of new capabilities, can do more and more things by himself. This is a child who has become a person who knows, thinks and acts spontaneously." "To aid life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the basic task of the educator." "Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission." "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future."