Character Quote by L. Frank Baum

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate…

— Dalai Lama

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

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain…

— Charlotte Mason

“Modern education does no favour to the children it is supposed to teach when it de-emphasizes facts; although facts are not the only important…

— Hans Eysenck

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a…

— Miss Read

I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they…

— Muriel Wace

“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

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

— Sai Baba

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust…

— E. M. Forster

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

— Plato

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his…

— Albert Einstein

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson