- 44 Albert Einstein Quotes On Education.
- Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
