Education Quotes
A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth.
The object of education was to produce a desire to serve the community as a whole and to apply the knowledge gained not only for personal but for public welfare.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.
This independence is glorified as academic freedom, ... except that in the background, a discreet distance away, stands the state watching with a certain supervisory look on its face, making sure to remind everybody from time to time that it is the aim, the purpose, the essence of this whole strange process.
Philological considerations have slowly but surely taken the place of profound explorations of eternal problems. The question becomes: What did this or that philosopher think or not think? And is this or that text rightly ascribed to him or not?
Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself-and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
Everybody who is in earnest in this matter will have the same sort of experience as the recruit in the army who is compelled to learn walking after having walked almost all his life as a dilettante or empiricist. It is a hard time: one almost fears that the tendons are going to snap and one ceases to hope that the artificial and consciously acquired movements and positions of the feet will ever be carried out with ease and comfort.
It is painful to see how awkwardly and heavily one foot is set before the other, and one dreads that one may not only be unable to learn the new way of walking, but that one will forget how to walk at all.
That educating philosopher of whom I dreamed would, I came to think, not only discover the central force, he would also know how to prevent its acting destructively on the other forces: his educational task would, it seemed to me, be to mould the whole man into a living solar and planetary system and to understand its higher laws of motion.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected. For those peoples and their nations, from the heart of American democracy, I wish to reaffirm my highest esteem and appreciation. Those first contacts were often turbulent and violent, but it is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present. Nonetheless, when the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the errors of the past. We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our 'neighbors' and everything around us.
In education dwells the seed of hope: hope for peace and justice, hope for beauty and goodness; hope for social harmony.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Education is basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain.
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