Education

"Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process." John Dewey

"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience." John Dewey

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results." John Dewey

"You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow." John Dewey

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." John Dewey

"The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems." John Dewey

"The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning." John Dewey

"Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs on the government, and so developing an economic interest in profession and teaching a statist, pro-government, and socialist ideology." Henry Hazlitt

"Half-education only becomes dangerous when it fails to recognize its own nature as a fraction and arrogantly imagines that it has already become education." Franz von Holtzendorff

"Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?" Theodore Dalrymple

"What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?" Peter Ustinov

"I was never very happy at school." Dan Stevens

"Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community." Rudolf Virchow