Jocelyn T.

Grande
BSED English 2-1

PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT EDUCATION

“Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint
and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does
not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and
does not use it.” (De Montaigne)
"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of
empires depends on the education of youth." (Aristotle)
“The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.” (De Montaigne)
“Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these gave only life,
those the art of living well.” (Aristotle, In Education)
“The roots of Education are bitter, but the Fruit is sweet.” (Aristotle)
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for today.”
(Malcolm X)
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” (Victor Hugo)
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life with
all existence.” (Rabindranath Tagore)
“Education is the kindling flame, not the filling of a vessel.” (Socrates)
“Education is not the preparation of life; education is life itself.” (John Dewey)
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“The central purpose of education, learning and collaboration should be to mediate voluntary
evolution. In its current state, what we call education is leading to humanity towards extinction.”
(Chad Grills)
“Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of a fire.” (W.B. Yeats)
“Education is the movement frim darkness to light.” (Allan Bloom)
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” (Albert Einstein)
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” (Aristotle)
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” (Ignacio
Estrada)
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Nelson
Mandela)