Einstein Quotes on Education and School

[chris3991m]

Taken from The Ultimate Quotable Einstein http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9268.html

"I am opposed to examinations—they only deter from the interest in studying. No more than two exams should be given throughout a student’s [college] career. I would hold seminars, and if the young people are interested and listen, I would give them a diploma."

"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life."

"To me the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with the methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of the pupil."

[UnicornLionWolf]

(09-13-2016 11:44 AM)chris3991m Wrote:  Taken from The Ultimate Quotable Einstein http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9268.html

"I am opposed to examinations—they only deter from the interest in studying. No more than two exams should be given throughout a student’s [college] career. I would hold seminars, and if the young people are interested and listen, I would give them a diploma."

"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life."

"To me the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with the methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of the pupil."

Some good points were made in here. If only the education establishment would acknowledge and improve based on said points.