Edward de Bono Quotes

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Schools teach ignorance.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

To teach is to learn twice.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

Schooling is so important.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.