Education
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Books, teachers, parents, the society around us, all tell us what to think, but they never help us to find out how to think.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Education is not just an accumulation of information but essentially about enhancing one’s ability to perceive.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Once you have no ability to hold your attention, you have lost the ability to access your intelligence also, you just churn out that information from memory.
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Education is about expanding the horizons of human experience and becoming inclusive. Only in a state of inclusiveness can the empowerment of education become a bounty all of us may cherish.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Education is about making the child grow with an uncluttered intelligence. An intelligence that is not identified and entangled in religion, doctrine, or prejudice will naturally lead to ultimate blossoming of the individual.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.