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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

 

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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

 

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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.



John Dewey:

 

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

 

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The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

 

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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

 

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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

 

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher

 

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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

 

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Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

 

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Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

 

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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

 

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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.



Maria Montessori:

 

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

 

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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

 

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First, God created idiots. That was

 

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

 

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

1908, notebook

 

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

 

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To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.