Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Reverence for human personality is the beginning of wisdom, in every social question, but above all in education.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A bad teacher will will aim at imposing his opinion, and turning out a set of pupils all of whom will give… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenseless children believe absurd propositions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
