Education Quotes

• "If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
  By: Montessori, Maria
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• "In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."
  By: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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• "We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
  By: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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• "It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties."
  By: Miller, Alice Duer
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• "The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing."
  By: Mcluhan, Marshall
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• "The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet."
  By: Mcginley, Phyllis
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• "The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."
  By: Mason, John
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• "Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."
  By: Margaret Mead
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• "A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
  By: Mann, Horace
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• "Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
  By: Mann, Horace
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• "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
  By: Mann, Horace
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• "Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."
  By: Malcolm X
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• "Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."
  By: Madison, James
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• "I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."
  By: Luther, Martin
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• "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
  By: Locke, John
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