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Below you will find our unique gallery of famous Philosopher's quotes on the Philosophy of Education (Confucius, Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, Seneca, Galileo Galilei, Michel de Montaigne, Benedictus de Spinoza, Rene Descartes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Wordsworth, Louis Pasteur, Johann Goethe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Hegel, Alfred Whitehead, Thomas Edison, William James, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, JFK, Mohandas Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Lucretia Mott, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Bronte).
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 Socrates: Knowledge Books Wisdom 'Employ your time in improving yourself by other people's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for.' |
 Good, Evil, Knowledge, Ignorance: Socrates Wisdom 'There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.' |
 Beginning of Wisdom: Greek Philosopher Socrates 'The unexamined life is not worth living. ... Wisdom begins in wonder.' |
 Plato Educational Philosophy: Love of Beauty 'The object of education is to teach us love of beauty.' (Plato quote on Education, 427 - 347 B.C.) |
 Play Discovery: Greek Philosophy Wisdom of Plato 'You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.' |
 Aristotle Philosophy of Education: Living and Dead 'The educated differ from the uneducated, as the living from the dead.' (Aristotle on Education, 384 - 322 B.C.) |
 Aristotle: Habit of Excellence in Education 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' |
 Education of Youth: Greek Cynic Diogenes 'The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.' |
 Seneca strength of Mind: Challenge Hardship Labour 'Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.' |
 Words of Confucius: Pleasure of Applied Learning 'To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned, isn't that a pleasure?' |
 Education from Antiquity: Confucius on Knowledge 'I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.' (Confucius, 551 - 479 B.C) |
 Noble Eightfold Path: Buddha Education of Mind 'To tread the Noble Eightfold Path requires one to live a life based on a right view, right thought, right speech, right conduct, right vocation, right effort, right attention and right concentration. |
 Discovery Truth Science: Galileo Individual Power 'All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; ...the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.' |
 Michel de Montaigne: Philosophy of Education Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?' (de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592) |
 Spinoza: Guidance
of Reason: Noble Love of Fellow Man '...He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.' |
 Seeker of Truth: Rene Descartes on Doubt 'If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.' |
 False Opinion
Society Influence: Rene Descartes Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, ...' |
 Jean Jacques Rousseau: Education 'Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.' (Rousseau, 1712 -1778) |
 Poetry of Wordsworth: Nature the Teacher 'Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.' |
 Noble soul, Clear Mind, Goethe Purity of Thought 'If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.' |
 Science and Knowledge: Words of Louis Pasteur Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.' |
 Truth and Life: German Philosophy Schopenhauer 'But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.' |
 History Failure of Government: Hegel Quote 'What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.' |
 Whitehead Education: Philosophy Death of Ignorance 'Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ... Philosophy is the product of wonder.' |
 Thomas Edison Quote: Inspiration and Genius 'Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.' |
 Poincare: Science
and Intuition; Proof and Discovery 'It is through Science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.' |
 Bertie Russell:
Thought is Revolutionary, Terrible, Great, Free 'Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, ...Thought is great and swift and free.' |
 Attitude Perception William James Life Observation 'The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.' |
 Aldous Huxley
Old Age Spirit of Childhood 'The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.' |
 Thomas Jefferson:
Power of the Press: Safety Freedom '... The people cannot be safe without information. When the press is free and every man can read, all is safe.' |
 Theodore Roosevelt: Moral Education 'To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.' |
 JFK: Human Mind, Knowledge, Education of a Nation '...The human mind is our fundamental resource. ... The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.' |
 Power of Truth: Famous Words of Gandhi 'The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.' |
 Winston Churchill: Mankind Fear of Truth 'Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.' |
 Nelson Mandela Education Weapon of Change 'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.' |
 Rudolf Steiner: Education school 'A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.' |
 Sigmund Freud: Radiant Mind of Children 'What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of a child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.' (Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939) |
 Methods of Education Children and Maria Montessori 'If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.' |
 Individual Responsibility to Humanity: Marie Curie '...each of us must work for his own improvement, ...our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.' |
 Feminist Philosophy: Strength of Female Mind: Mary Wollstonecraft Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.' |
 Charlotte Bronte: Prejudice & Education 'Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.' |
 Authority vs. Truth: Feminist Lucretia Mott Quote
'We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.' |
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