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Quotations about Education and Critical Thinking
"We must not
believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated,
but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the
educated are free."
~
Epictetus (c. 55 - c. 135)
"Fables
should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic
fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.
The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great
pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a
living truth --- often more so, since a superstition is so
intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point
of view, and so is changeable."
~ (Hypatia
of Alexandria c. 360 - c. 415)
"Let us have but one end in view, the
welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in
consideration of language, nationality, or religion." ~
John Comenius (1592 - 1670)
"In fact, it is a farce to call any being
virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own
reason." ~
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797)
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and
free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never
will be."
~ Thomas
Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
"Prejudice is the child
of ignorance."
~ William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
"Prejudices, it is well
known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has
never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as
weeds among rocks."
~ Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
"Human history becomes
more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
~
H. G.
Wells (1866 - 1946)
"It has always seemed
strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little
stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the
enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the
world of thought -- that is to be educated." Edith Hamilton
~
(1867- 1963)
"'Common
sense' is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind
before the age of 18."
~
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"Those who cannot learn
from history are doomed to repeat it."
~
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
"Prejudice is a great time
saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
~ E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
"The illiterate of
the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler
~
(1928 - )
