#education

"[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students)."

"The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught."

"We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them."

"My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

"My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker."

"the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."

"We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant."

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."

"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"

"Great books make great being."

"If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman."

"The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion."

"À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"If "facts"convinced people of things, no one would have sex"

"The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them."

"A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential."

"Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world."