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Education Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- Some people would rather die than think.
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
- A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
- Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
- Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard…
- It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education…
- Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite…
- The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
- Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what…
- When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,…
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the…
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
- No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them…
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the…
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe