Dunces Quote by C. S. Lewis

“The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and…

— C.S. Lewis

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no…

— Sai Baba

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

— Sargent Shriver

Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull…

— E. D. Hirsch, Jr

“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“What is different today, and especially worrisome when it comes to the creation of educated citizens, is how the protective, swaddling environment of the…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Education is not enough, there is a need for economic improvement for better conditions of human beings.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity…

— Anonymous

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals.…

— Sai Baba

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

— Maria Montessori

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

— Horace Mann

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped…

— Maria Montessori