Ability Quote by Ivan Illich

“Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

— Wendy Priesnitz

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by…

— Terry Pratchett

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education.…

— Abdoulaye Wade

“Education - The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that instruction and discipline which is intended to…

— Zan Tyler

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile…

— William Watson Purkey

Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared…

— John Dewey

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

— Anonymous

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

— Maria Montessori

“The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is…

— Muriel Spark

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

— George Santayana

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

— Marshall McLuhan

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman