Agency Quote by John Dewey

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

— Bill Richardson

Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind…

— John Finley

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

“Education is the system that’s supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is…

— Kenneth Robinson

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

— Anonymous

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

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though…

— Richard M. Weaver

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to…

— Myles Horton

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation…

— Paulo Freire

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the…

— Wendell Berry

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

— Aristotle

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott