“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
More from John Dewey on Education
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.”
Others on Education
Malala Yousafzai
7 quotes“Education is neither eastern nor western.”
Horace Mann
5 quotes“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
Henry Adams
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Plutarch
4 quotes“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures”
FDR
3 quotes“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Anatole France
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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.”
B.F. Skinner
3 quotes“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
Malcolm X
3 quotes“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
Leo Buscaglia
3 quotes“Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.”
Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.”