Alexander De Croo Quotes

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Learning and the exchange of ideas is dramatic.

To me, education is not a commodity. It is a public good, essential to any society with a claim to being civilised.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

I give the children education.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

We gotta educate the kids. You've got to do your job as a citizen, but the same time, you have to also give the tools to the society to learn and create their habits so it's a seamless transition to become a better society.

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.