Education Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

— Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

— Bertrand Russell

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

— Bertrand Russell

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

— Bertrand Russell

Some people would rather die than think.

— Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

— Bertrand Russell

“A bad teacher will will aim at imposing his opinion, and turning out a set of pupils all of whom will give…

— Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

“Reverence for human personality is the beginning of wisdom, in every social question, but above all in education.”

— Bertrand Russell

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to…

— Bertrand Russell

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

— Bertrand Russell

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

— Bertrand Russell

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

— Bertrand Russell

“It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century…

— Bertrand Russell

“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a…

— Bertrand Russell

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that…

— Bertrand Russell

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily…

— Bertrand Russell

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

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard…

— Bertrand Russell

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual…

— Bertrand Russell

Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a…

— Bertrand Russell

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,…

— Bertrand Russell

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare…

— Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…

— Bertrand Russell

“Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenseless children believe absurd propositions…

— Bertrand Russell

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments…

— Bertrand Russell

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

“In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is…

— Bertrand Russell

Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal…

— Bertrand Russell

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

— Bertrand Russell

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

— Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

— Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

— Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

— Bertrand Russell

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

— Bertrand Russell

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

— Bertrand Russell

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied,…

— Bertrand Russell