Olga Tokarczuk Quotes

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

We are all entitled to our own opinion.

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.