
“Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of education, people, use, doing.
“Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.”
“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Variant: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.
“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
Context: Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Source: Perú Informa. Interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Education for All People and Education for Life
Education for All People and Education for Life
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
Education for All People and Education for Life
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrdaen/1/1/1_KJ00006742072/_pdf
Education for Peace
“and should be entitled to have access to education according to their competency and needs.”
Education for All People and Education for Life
All for Education
Source: :http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
Education for All People and Education for Life
All for Education
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Education is simply the act of gaining knowledge. Nothing to do with school.”
Source: Fani-Kayode urges Buhari to take Okadigbo’s advice, Ifreke Inyang, 23 October 2017, Daily Post, Nigeria, 18 April 2018 http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/23/fani-kayode-urges-buhari-take-okadigbos-advice/,
Teacher
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
Fictional attribution in the movie The Emperor's Club (2002), given by Kevin Kline (as William Hundert); also attributed to Diogenes, without sources; no published occurrences of this statement prior to the movie have been located in any of the Aristophanes Plays or Fragments.
Misattributed
Source: IMDb, "Memorable quotes for The Emperor's Club" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283530/quotes, Internet Movie Database, www.imdb.com
Source: Two pages attributing it to Diogenes: http://www.prohibitionists.org/Background/Party_Platform/quickquotes/QQ-education.htm http://www.ryanbalton.com/funstuff/forb_seniorquotes.htm
Teacher
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Nahj al-Balagha
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above.
Disputed
Source: Metaphysics
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
Quoted in David Carr, "Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&, New York Times (2008-04-20)
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
This is a paraphrase of an idea that Dewey expressed using other words in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916); it is widely misattributed to Dewey as a quotation.
Cf. James William Norman, A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=qrmgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 p. 140] (emphasis added): "...there has for years been a strong and growing tendency in the United States under the leadership of Dewey, and more recently of Kilpatrick, to find an educational method correlative of democracy in society with the belief that education is life itself rather than a mere preparation for life, and that practice in democratic living is the best preparation for democracy."
Misattributed
Variant: Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
“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.
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
Source: His Last Bow: 8 Stories
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
“The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.”
Part II : How Language Calls to the Child, p. 121
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
Source: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), p. 105.
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Variant: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974), General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait.
1936 speeches to the Great Council of Chiefs
In his first school essay, while in Class VIII, expressing his ideas and ideals, in: p. 28.
Quest for Truth (1999)
On her opposition to the construction of a skyscraper in Nairobi, Kenya, as quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman ..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)
“That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him.”
The Secret of Childhood, p. 108.
Context: We have in ourselves tendencies that are not good and which flourish like weeds in a field. (Original sin). These tendencies are many; they fall into seven groups, known of old as the Seven deadly sins. All deadly sins tend to separate us from the child; for the child compared to us, is not only purer but has mysterious qualities, which we adults as a rule cannot perceive, but in which we must believe with faith, for Jesus spoke to them so clearly and insistently that all the Evangelists recorded His words: Unless ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall nor enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him. It is with this endeavour, thus defined and delimited, that we wish to deal.
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
Variant: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
" Women: One Half of Our Society http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women_-_One_half_of_our_society" (1981).
Source: The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
Context: The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Interview http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/library/cc835_44.htm with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), p. 212
Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 4
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
BBC News Obituary of Ian Smith http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1136865.stm, 20 November 2007.
Extract from an interview by James Francis Cooke, as given in the 1999 edition of Great Pianists on Piano Playing (Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999) p. 217.
Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html
Letter to Catherine L. Moore (7 February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 407-408
Non-Fiction, Letters
Quoted in the tribute of The Lost Symbol (2009) by Dan Brown
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Context: A nation with culture is blessed. To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.
In 1926, when she addressed the bengal women's education conference http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/148459.Rokeya_Sakhawat_Hossain
Context: The opponents of the female education say that women will be unruly... fie! They call themselves muslims and yet go against the basic tenet of islam which gives equal right to education. If men are not led astray once educated, why should women?
"Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Every young man is as dear to me as to his parents" in UZ Daily https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/post/63421 (4 February 2021)
As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
Disputed
Attributed
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell
Variant: I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
“The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.”
Source: An Anthology
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”
As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
Variant: We don't have education we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Source: Bob Marley - Legend
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”
"What is Science?" http://orwell.ru/library/articles/science/english/e_scien, Tribune (26 October 1945)
“The Philosophy of Fascism,” first published in English in the Spectator, November 1928, pp. 36-37. Reprinted in Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 33
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal" — "government by consent of the governed" — "give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives. Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
"Charles Dickens" (1939)
Charles Dickens (1939)