A Collection of 100 Quotes About Natural, Self-Directed Learning & Compulsory Schooling - 0 views
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo
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“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” – Plato
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“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” – Oscar Wilde
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain
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“Self education is, I believe, the only education there is.” – Issac Asimov
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“Children do not need to be made to learn about the world or shown how. They want to, and they know how.” – John Holt
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
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“There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.” – William Glasser
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““Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
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“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” - Alec Bourne
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“You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.” – Howard Gardner
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"You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in." - Howard Gardner
