Seneca the Younger Quotes

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys such a distaste for learning that they never read another book as long as they live. No, the mission is to inspire you with a taste for scholarship - a taste which will last you all your life.