Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be read more

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war read more

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.