Education Quote by Saaif Alam

“Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking…

— L. Susan Stebbing

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

— Henri Lebesgue

“A student should not be taught more than he can think about.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.”

— Paul Hoffman

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could…

— Eldon Taylor

“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals…

— Thomas Sowell

“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”

— Jerome S. Bruner

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

— Gampopa

“If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.”

— David Marquet

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

— Peter Straub