Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.
Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.
Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.
The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.
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