Education Quotes

“Various mental tests or scholastic tests have been criticized as unfair because different groups perform very differently on such tests. But one reply to critics summarized the issue succinctly: “The tests are not unfair. Life is unfair and the tests measure the results.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children. But the John Grier Home instantly stamped out the slightest flicker that appeared. Duty was the one quality that was encouraged. I don't think children ought to know the meaning of the word; it's odious, detestable. They ought to do everything from love.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long-Legs

“Critics of ideological indoctrination in schools and colleges often attack the particular ideological conclusions, but that is beside the point educationally. Even if we were to assume, for the sake of argument, that all the conclusions reached by all the various “studies” are both logically and factually valid, that still does not get to the heart of the educational issue. Even if students were to leave these “studies” with 100 percent correct conclusions about issues A, B and C, that would in no way equip them intellectually with the tools needed to confront very different issues X, Y and Z that are likely to arise over the course of their future years. For that they would need knowledge and experience in how to analyze and weigh conflicting viewpoints.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“One has to tell people what to think. There's no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“I've realised that the most diverse academic disciplines are not really incompatible but are rather harmonious.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“The ocean of knowledge is profound and the deeper you dive, the more insight you will gain from it.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Anyone starting out to research for a doctorate degree should remember that hours of self centered work has the ability to be the spark for others to progress. All research is potentially useful to open doors or show others that door does not lead anywhere useful. Advancements happen by building on others research.”
― Ian R. McAndrew, PhD

“English teachers want to see essays written down in black and white , following the rules of grammar and spelling which directly conflicts with the freedom inherent in the act of thinking”
― Peter Jenny, The Artist's Eye: (Learning to See)

“Covey taught me a priceless principle that would forever change my outlook on the nature of education and experience. He said, 'Richie, experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.”
― Richie Norton

“I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Most people have managed to get by without being educated…because, in order to make education more user-friendly, they managed to forget about the changes in people’s brains that are supposed to happen.”
― Alan Kay

“University training teaches discipline.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Discipline means get the work done even though you do not want to work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Adults have led education for eons and don't let students have any say. If this is going to work, we need a different approach.

-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
― Aaron L. Smith, Ph.D.

“Not all educated people are trully educated, because some of them disobey laws”
― Elmitch Alarcio

“College, after all, as those who like to denigrate it often say, is “not the real world.” But that is precisely its
strength.”
― William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

“The difference between growing up like me and growing up likeWill was the he wore his sense of entitlement lightly. I think if you grow up like he had done, with wealthy parents, in a nice house, if you go to good school and nice restaurants as a matter of course, you just have this sense that good things will fall into place, that your position in the world is naturally an elevated one.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The difference between growing up like me and growing up like Will was that wore his sense of entitlement lightly. I think if you grow up like he had done, with wealthy parents, in a nice house, if you go to good schools and nice restaurants as a matter of course, you just have this sense that good things will fall into place, that your position in the world is naturally an elevated one.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The beauty of a book is that the opportunity to grow, heal and be refreshed is but a page away.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our education system is outdated and has outlived its life cycle. It neither teaches you to live nor prepares you to make a living.”
― Anand Damani

“Some situations are a case of the blind leading the deaf.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Education without application is corruption”
― Obimuyiwa Gabriel

“Every experience reveals its own education.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Any training is difficult, it takes time to learn the art.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Research can be both lonely and rewarding. I would encourage research in areas that are of interest to the researcher and not that which is currently popular. Any research of note is not going to happen overnight and your interest will keep you dedicated.”
― Ian R. McAndrew, PhD

“I can’t believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“Being positive is the only practical way to live." (from my father Stephen)”
― Zachary S. Brooks, PhD, Discovering Your Human Algorithm: How to Live with Meaning and Purpose

“The extreme wealth of American big business is the direct result of school having trained us in certain attitudes like a craving for novelty. That’s what the bells are for. They don’t ring so much as to say ,"Now for something different".”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“Truth is endless and timeless, yet never is it closer to you than the times when you are naively curious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable