Quotes by Philosophers - Page 318

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television.
Umberto Eco
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
John Dewey
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
John Dewey
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write
Friedrich Nietzsche
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
Augustine of Hippo
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.
Jonathan Sacks
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
Karl Marx
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
Ivan Illich
Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Swami Vivekananda
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
Friedrich Nietzsche
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
Seneca
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
G.K. Chesterton
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
Rabindranath Tagore
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ayn Rand
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] ... normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.
Noam Chomsky
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
Plato
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Ivan Illich
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
Paulo Freire
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
Plato
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Aristotle
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
Frantz Fanon
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
Confucius
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G.K. Chesterton
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
Jostein Gaarder
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Noam Chomsky
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 theirown.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Aristotle
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Thomas More
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
Noam Chomsky
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Augustine of Hippo
Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.
Rabindranath Tagore
...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.
Immanuel Kant
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don’t long – just be. Don’t even look – just be! Don’t think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything – because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.
Osho
When something looks impossible, don’t give up without testing its impossibility
Bangambiki Habyarimana
As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.
Criss Jami
The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.
Confucius