"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

Dewey, John | Education | 7 bookmarks

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac | Self-improvement | 7 bookmarks

"We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."

Gardner, David P. | Education | 5 bookmarks

"The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

Baldwin, James | Education | 6 bookmarks

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Education | 7 bookmarks

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Education | 12 bookmarks

"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."

Hibben, Dr. John G. | Education | 1 bookmarks

"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

Lee, Robert E. | Education | 6 bookmarks

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Whately, Richard | Curiosity | 2 bookmarks