Education Quotes
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is credited to John Dewey, but the wording is a paraphrase. He expressed the idea in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916) using other words, and the compressed version circulates as if it were a direct quotation. The Einstein line about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is flagged as well.
The sourced entries are less tidy and better. Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus (1833), called it a tragedy that a man should die ignorant who had the capacity for knowledge. Bertrand Russell argued in Sceptical Essays (1928) that education had become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Eric Hoffer, in Before the Sabbath (1979), wrote that the best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power.
I am fully aware of how little an American education teaches you about Native people.
“How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?”
Girls education benefits on herself, her family, her community, her nation.
Bear in mind that formal education is not just about securing excellent academic grades.
Education starts from teaching our young ones these values from an early age.
There cannot be an alternative to access to education or knowledge.