Acquisition Quote by William Godwin

“Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover,…

— Jean Piaget

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

— Viktor E. Frankl

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love…

— Karl Popper

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have…

— Jean Piaget

The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not…

— Bertrand Russell

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have…

— Jean Piaget

“should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build…

— George Fillmore Swain

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned…

— Dayananda Saraswati