Albert Einstein Quotes

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Think your own thoughts.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.