Education Quote by Jose Vilson

Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of…

— Sol Stern

“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning…

— Sydney J. Harris

“I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has to use…

— Albert Einstein

“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that although we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be reduced to…

— Michael F.D. Young

“Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are…

— Barack Obama

“Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind…

— William Hazlitt

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

— Ivan Illich

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest…

— Amit Ray

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning.…

— Sugata Mitra

In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist…

— Parker J. Palmer