Educate Quote by John Archibald Wheeler

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

— David Horowitz

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

— Seymour Sarason

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and…

— Derek Bok

Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that…

— George Bernard Shaw

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their…

— Ernest L. Boyer

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it…

— Alison Gopnik

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

— Bill Gates

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a…

— Jordan Peterson

Since universities are funded in large parts by grants that depend on costly research, they have every incentive to free professors from their teaching…

— Bret Weinstein