School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image