Education Quote by Marshall McLuhan

“Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.”

— Stephen Batchelor

“Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

— Wendy Priesnitz

“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically…

— Steven Pinker

Education has evolved into a mirror of mimicking.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Education has for its object the formation of character.

— Herbert Spencer

“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

— Melissa Wiley

“The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on…

— Thomas Sowell

“Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's…

— Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

“Education, is not just simply the progress of school, it is having the ability and desire to learn on your own.”

— Rawley Kramer

“Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have…

— Bertolt Brecht

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman