Education Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas…

— William James

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt…

— George Trumbull Ladd

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

— Bill Bryson

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

— Eric Hoffer

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

— Alison Gopnik

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its…

— James Agee

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening…

— Angela Duckworth

I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in…

— Jack Canfield

“The one that we’re involved with is that kids are natural learners. That’s the paradigm we know is true, and modern brain research reinforces…

— Ken Robinson

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller

School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's…

— Ray Dalio

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

— Irwin Redlener