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“As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.”

Use Culture Education Asking Sake Assumption

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.”

Education Teaching Asking Discouraging Schooling

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

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

Thinking Persons Real Goal Education Asking Asking Questions Real Education

Author:Max Beerbohm

“It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.”

Hard Pay Education Study Asking Folks Oneself No Money

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.”

Children Has Beens Said Enough Facts School Education Succeed Scientist Function Asking Intelligence Primaries Impart Asking Questions

Book:The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist

Source: The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist

“Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.”

Knows Doe Art Motivational Purpose Education Knowing Teacher Waste Capable Asking Educational Questioning Pupils Asking Questions Science Education

Author:Albert Einstein