The Goal of Higher Education, Part 3

This is my last post on the topic (for now). Here are some great quotes on the nature and goals of education. Hope you find them as interesting as I do.

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. – Anatole France

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. – Plato

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B.F. Skinner

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. – Russell Bertrand

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. – Voltaire