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Quote by Max Beerbohm

“The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.”

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Max Beerbohm was an English essayist and satirist known for his wit and satirical style. His works often focused on social and cultural satire, offering profound insights into the customs of his time and the literary world. more

“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 grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works

“Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.”

Self Education Steps Independence Self Confidence Developing Conformity Resisting Eccentricity

Author:Al MacInnis

“One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.”

Education Thousand Priests Good School

Source: Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).

“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.”

Children Doe Can Do Education Teach Teaching Diversity Social Justice Pupils

Author:John Stuart Mill

“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”

Education Teach Too Much Teaching Useless Academy

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret

“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.”

Ifs Giving Age Young Grows Education Comfortable Plant Shade Shelter Retreat

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

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