“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
More from Henry Adams on Education
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.”
Others on Education
Malala Yousafzai
7 quotes“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
Horace Mann
5 quotes“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
John Dewey
5 quotes“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or...”
Plutarch
4 quotes“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Malcolm X
3 quotes“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
B.F. Skinner
3 quotes“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
Leo Buscaglia
3 quotes“Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures”
Ezra Pound
3 quotes“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”
FDR
3 quotes“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Anatole France
3 quotes“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying i...”
Erasmus
2 quotes“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth”