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Education Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then…
- Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals…
- Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we…
- There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life,…
- Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments…
- There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings…
- Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
- To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.
- Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows…
- Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
- The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
- Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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