25 result(s) for Albert Einstein Quotes About Education.
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"The aim of education must be the training of independently thinking and acting individuals who, however, can see in service to the community their highest life achievement."
"It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he – with his specialized knowledge – more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person."
"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
"Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
"The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times; for, through modern development of economic life, the family as bearer of tradition and education has been weakened."
"I believe that the school, by discouraging cooperation and competition among pupils, undermines self-confidence."
"The most important motive for work in the school and in life is the pleasure in working, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by coercion and a sense of duty."
"The school must always have as its aim that the young man leave it not as a specialist but as a harmoniously developed personality."
"In my opinion, the most important function of education is to awaken the creative artist within each of us."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
"I want to teach men to be better human beings, to be more independent, more dependable, and more honest."
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."