Browsing Topic Best Education And Freedom Quotes

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.