Acts Quote by Alan Moore

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book.…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Some teachers go to their daily task merely upon compulsion; they regard it as intolerable drudgery. Others love the work: they hover around the…

— Jacob Abbott

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the…

— John Lubbock

“With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort of conspiracy…

— Rafe Esquith

“Yes, I know, because schools are cruel, illogical, and unfair. But the thing is, life is cruel, illogical, and unfair. That is why the…

— R. A. Spratt

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day…

— Louis Sullivan

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring,…

— Frank Smith

“Finally, don’t forget that what you want to see happen is thoughtful tinkering. You want to see kids thinking about what they’re tinkering with.…

— Curt Gabrielson

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of…

— William Hazlitt

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

— Sugata Mitra

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

— Plato

“Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as true what…

— André Breton