Education quotes

Today we  bring you some education quotes. Please share your favorite quote(s) and we’ll publish it/them.

“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities–that’s training or instruction–but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed…
To be educated, a person doesn’t have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerability to the transformative events of an engaged human life…
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

“An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.”

• Thomas Moore

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

• Mark Twain

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

• Plato

What’s your favorite education quote?