We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.