Education Quote by Amartya Sen

“He is exiled in a school where to often his capacity for constructive growth and self realization is repressed.”

— Paula Polk Lillard

“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”

— Jean M. Twenge

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition…

— John Dewey

“Develop flourishing schools … The purpose of the education system should be to create capable and emotionally well-rounded young people who are happy and…

— Nic Marks

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“School rewards with a certificate; nature rewards with enlightenment.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared…

— John Dewey

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by…

— William Godwin

“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.”

— Charlotte Mason

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity…

— Gustave Le Bon

“It was almost a side-effect that this caused me to educate myself to a degree which was beyond anything a school could hope to…

— Alan Bennett