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Educational Quotes by Albert Einstein
- This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated…
- Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
- If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his…
- Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning…
- The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must…
- ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in…
- I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
- I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had…
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
- I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
- Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that…
- A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination…
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk. . . I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it… — J. Allen Hynek
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov