The art of education is an art to awaken curiosity in young souls, and then to satisfy it.
Source: Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), part 2, chapter 4, page: 198. Complete Quote: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind Read More…
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence.
Source: Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (2012)
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Source: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (1928) by Margaret Mead.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks to the Delegates to the White House Conference on Education (July 21, 1965), (The Presidential Papers, Item 374).
Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Source: Nelson Mandela. “Lighting your way to a better future : Speech delivered by Mr N R Mandela at launch of Mindset Network,” July 16, 2003 at db.nelsonmandela.org.