Ernest Dimnet Quotes

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

I'd been going to school up to the third term of year 11 at MLC, and there was no point in dropping out. Having gone through Year 12, there's so much that helps you acquire the knowledge you need. It helps you in life.

Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.