40 phrases from philosophers on education raising the discussion on the topic

Education is the unfolding of the soul. To update, therefore, certain potencies that exist within the human soul.

AD Sertillanges

The ideal of education is not learning to the maximum, maximizing results, but above all learning to learn, learning to develop and learning to continue to develop after school.

Jean Piaget

All stories have an end, but mine continues… We plant and we don’t always see the full fruit of our work, but luckily others will continue.

Dorina Nowill

Educating is not repeating words, it is creating ideas, it is enchanting.

Augusto Cury

It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without him feeling his presence too much, so that he can always be ready to provide the necessary assistance, but never being an obstacle between the child and his experience.

Maria Montessori

There is no life without correction, without rectification.

Paulo Freire

When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to be the oppressor.

Paulo Freire

No one is born made, no one is born marked to be this or that. On the contrary, we become this or that. We are programmed, but, to learn.

Paulo Freire

Is it not preferable to correct, recover, and educate a human being than to cut off his head?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In political speeches, education comes first, in concrete action comes last.

Augusto Cury

It is in the problem of education that the great secret of the improvement of humanity lies.

Immanuel Kant

Learning without thinking is wasting energy.

Confucius

Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People transform the world.

Paulo Freire

Man is nothing but what education makes him.

Immanuel Kant

If education is the transformation of a reality, according to a better idea that we have, and if education can only be of a social character, it will turn out that pedagogy is the science of transforming society.

Ortega and Gasset

The teacher should adopt the role of facilitator, not content provider.

Lev Vygotsky

Man’s education begins at the moment of his birth; before speaking, before understanding, one is already instructed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you have to seduce feelings in its favor.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Education must give body and soul all the perfection and beauty they can have.

Plato

Educating is not teaching the answers. To educate is to teach to think.

Rubem Alves

Who opens a school closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

It is in the problem of education that the great secret of the improvement of humanity lies.

Immanuel Kant

Educators, before being specialists in the tools of knowledge, should be specialists in love: interpreters of dreams.

Rubem Alves

To educate is to grow. And to grow is to live. Education is, therefore, life in the most authentic sense of the word.

Anísio Teixeira

Man, as a historical being, inserted in a permanent movement of search, makes and remakes his knowledge.

Paulo Freire

In a world in transition, both students and teachers need to teach themselves an essential skill – they need to learn to learn.

Carl Sagan

Society, and each particular social environment, determine the ideal that education realizes.

Emile Durkheim

Without the education of sensibilities, all skills are foolish and meaningless.

Rubem Alves

The birth of thought is like the birth of a child: it all starts with an act of love.

Rubem Alves

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Hegel

Education feeds trust. Trust feeds hope. Hope feeds peace.

Confucius

Man’s education must begin with poetry, be strengthened by just conduct, and be consummated in music.

Confucius

Education develops faculties, but does not create them.

Voltaire

There are schools that are cages and there are schools that are wings.

Rubem Alves

Dare I here set forth the most important, the greatest, the most useful rule of all education? It’s not gaining time, but wasting it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education is the biggest and most difficult problem imposed on man.

Immanuel Kant

Education, whatever it may be, is always a theory of knowledge put into practice.

Paulo Freire

The initial guidance a person receives from education also marks his later conduct.

Plato

Do not educate children in the various subjects using force, but as if it were a game, so that you can also better observe the natural disposition of each one.

Plato