Age Quote by George Berkeley

To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which…

— John Lancaster Spalding

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

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

— Mark Twain

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the…

— Celia Green

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas…

— William James

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that…

— Henry Ford

Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work…

— Peter Hitchens

“Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind…

— William Hazlitt

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

— Vincent Massey