Eddie Rose > Eddie's Quotes

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
― Victor Hugo

“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography