Quotes on truth




The truth can be told in many different ways, but each can be true.

Education is suspended until you have taken.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to its highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

By education most have been misled, so they believe, because they were raised. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.

Theories and goals of education do not matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.



True education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is sheep.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Sixty years ago I knew everything, and now I do not know, education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.