Francis Bacon Quotes

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Much learning does not teach sense.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.