“Educators ought to know better than their pupils what an education is. If the educators do not, they have wasted their lives. The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not. The task of educators is to discover what an education is and then to invent the methods of interesting their students in it.”
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
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Source: Quoted in Herbert Howarth, Notes on Some Figures behind T. S. Eliot (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964), p. 89
“If children have interests then education happens.”
As quoted in Ted Talk "The child-driven education" http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html by Sugata Mitra (2012)
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications
“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
Source: Getting Well https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0787307785 (Health Research Books, 1993), p. 137.
L’amour pour lui, pour le corps humain, c’est de même un intérêt extrêmement humanitaire et une puissance plus éducative que toute la pédagogie du monde!
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
Variant: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
An Interview with Ocean Explorer Fabien Cousteau https://blogs.sierraclub.org/greenlife/2010/10/an-interview-with-ocean-explorer-fabien-cousteau.html (October 19, 2010)