Albert Einstein Quotes about Education

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Funny, Hilarious, Education

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Dance, Education

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Leadership, Education

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Motivational, Success, Education

Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Education, Learning

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Albert Einstein

Education, Learning, People

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.

Albert Einstein

Education, Mistake, Mean

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Sad, Education

"Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Life, Girl, Education

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.

Albert Einstein

Motivational, Education, Teacher

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Albert Einstein

Education, Learning, School

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Education, Independent, Thinking

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.29, Open Road Media

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Education, Spiritual

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Education

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

Albert Einstein

Education, School, Thinking

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Education, Honesty

Quoted in Peter Michelmore' s Einstein (p. 20)

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein

Education, Science, Climbing

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Albert Einstein

Education, Creativity, School

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Albert Einstein

Education, School

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

Motivational, Education, Freedom

Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

Albert Einstein

Education, Mistake, Believe

Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Funny, Education

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.

Albert Einstein

Education, Art, Book

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.100, Princeton University Press

Albert Einstein Quotes about Education

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