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“Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”

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Author:John Sterling

“Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.”

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Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”

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Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?”

“Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.”

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Book:The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“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

“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.”