The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Education is the best friend An educated person is respected everywhere Education beats the beauty and the youth

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

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

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained