Active Quote by John Dewey

Teaching is not telling and learning is not having been told.

— Madeline Hunter

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated…

— John Dewey

The mere imparting of information is not education.

— Carter G. Woodson

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

— Abraham Lincoln

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

— John Dewey

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

— Sai Baba

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The objective of education is learning, not teaching

— Russell L. Ackoff

The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

— Richard DuFour

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

— George Russell