Education: What is Education Not?

"Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life." (W E B DuBois)

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." (John Dewey)

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lightning of a fire." (William B Yeats)

"Education is not learning, but the training of the mind that it may learn." (Sir William W Gull)

"Education is not training but rather the process that equips you to entertain yourself, a friend and an idea." (Wallace Sterling)

"Education is habit-forming rather than information; illumination rather than indoctrination, inspiration rather than compulsion." (Edwin G Conklin, "Science in the World Crisis", 1939)

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed." (Thomas W Moore)

"What is education? Is it book-learning? No. Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that. The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education." (Swami Vivekananda)

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." (Anatole France)

"Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave." (John Ruskin)

"The object of education is not only to produce a man who knows, but one who does; who makes his mark in the straggle of life and succeeds well in whatever he undertakes: who can solve the problems of nature and of humanity as they arise, and who, when he knows he is right, can boldly convince the world of the fact." (Henry A Rowland)

"A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to co-operate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful without any comparison with the other." (Osho)

"Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow." (Bel Kaufman)