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 cannot ridicule their every idea but in most things my vote is against the education system.
It is extremely very sad, Rwanda and the Ministry of Education have lost a good friend .
I wish I gave my children a proper education; you know nobody can replace a mother’s love
All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
Education must be connected to opportunities in the job market.
Our youth education is based on three pillars: belief, science and work.
We must remove, not erect, barriers to degree level education.