Neil Postman Quotes

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

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

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.