According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. (Albert Einstein)
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. (Albert Einstein)
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. (Albert Einstein)
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. (Albert Einstein)
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. (Albert Einstein)
My deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. (Albert Einstein)
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. (Albert Einstein)
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein)
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. (Albert Einstein)
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks. (Albert Einstein)
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach (Albert Einstein)
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. (Albert Einstein)
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. (Albert Einstein)