Quotes about Education
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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.
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn`t even ask.
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The young reinvent the universe, [...] and they give the new universe to us as their gift.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.