Quotations about education

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
— F W Nietzsche (1889)

We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government.
— From the Democratic National Platform of 1892 (in opposition to compulsory attendance laws)

We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still posses.
—C.S. Lewis

The purpose of education is not to make men carpenters, but to make carpenters men.
— W.E.B. DuBois

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
— Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
— Albert Einstein

I’ve been slumming.

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