Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be read more

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is read more

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.