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"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Maria Montessori on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

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

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by Maria Montessori

• "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

• "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."

• "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

• "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."

• "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"