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School Quotes by Albert Einstein
- 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…
- The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize…
- What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to…
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
- War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.…
- There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
- Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in…
- During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The…
- School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to…
- Figuring out how to think about the problem.
- The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in…
- Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
- Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class.…
- Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Never memorize something that you can look up.
- 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…
- Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands…
- One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring…
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- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams