Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

I'm all for education.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Having an education is invaluable.