The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.