Active Quote by John Dewey

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

— John Dewey

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to…

— Louis Brandeis

“No system of education can be perfect which does not teach the principle of righteousness and faith in God. Learning has not saved the…

— George Q. Cannon

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can…

— Allan Bloom

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

— Pope Pius XI

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Abraham Lincoln

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can…

— Isocrates

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

— Thomas Sowell

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere…

— William George Jordan

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

— Ambrose Bierce