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Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Marshall McLuhan, fully Herbert Marshall McLuhan
The trouble with cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it.
Marshall McLuhan, fully Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either.
Henry Adams, aka Henry Brooks Adams
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned with it, teachers and students.
Isaac Asimov, born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Henry Adams, aka Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
Education | Understand |
The purpose of education is to cultivate right relationship, not only between individuals, but also between the individual and society; and that is why it is essential that education should, above all, help the individual to understand his own psychological process. Intelligence lies in understanding oneself and going above and beyond oneself; but there cannot be intelligence as long as there is fear.
Education | Individual | Intelligence | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Understanding | Understand |
Jacques Barzun, fully Jacques Martin Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast expanse of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a very good job; but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid? So, while you are young, must you not seek to find out what life is all about? And is it not the true function of education to cultivate in you the intelligence which will try to find the answer to all these problems?
Education | Good | Intelligence | Land | Life | Life | Meaning | Mind | Will | Understand |
Surely education is not merely to give you knowledge, but also to give you the capacity to look at the world objectively, to see what is happening - the wars, the destruction, the violence, the brutality. The function of education is to find out how to live differently, not merely to pass exams, to get a degree, become qualified in certain ways. It is to help you to face the world in a totally different, intelligent way, knowing you have to earn a livelihood, knowing all the responsibilities, the miseries of it all.
Religious education in the true sense is to encourage the child to understand his own relationship to people, to things and to nature. There is no existence without relationship; and without self-knowledge, all relationship, with the one and with the many, brings conflict and sorrow. Of course, to explain this fully to a child is impossible; but if the educator and the parents deeply grasp the full significance of relationship, then by their attitude, conduct and speech they will surely be able to convey to the child, without too many words and explanations, the meaning of a spiritual life.
Conduct | Education | Existence | Meaning | Parents | Relationship | Sense | Speech | Will | Words | Child | Understand |
The right kind of education is concerned with individual freedom, which alone can bring true cooperation with the whole, with the many; but this freedom is not achieved through the pursuit of one's own aggrandizement and success. Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself through craving its own security.
Cooperation | Education | Freedom | Individual | Mind | Right |
James Cotter Morison, fully James Augustus Cotter Morison
A good education is generally considered as reflecting no small credit on its possessor; but in the majority of cases is reflects credit on the wise solicitude of his parents or guardians, rather than on himself.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.