The continuing professional education of adults is the No. 1 gross industry in the next 30 years, but not in the traditional form. In five years, we will deliver most of our executive management programs online. The Internet combines the advantages of both class and book. In a book you can go back to page 16. In a class you can't, but in a class there is a physical presence; and on the Internet you have both - Peter Drucker
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you - B.B. King, American Blues Guitarist and Songwriter
The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissenand originality - HL Mencken
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community- these are the most vital things education must try to produce - Virginia Gildersleeve
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 - Bertrand Russell
Our education system was designed in a different era, during the industrial revolution. It was designed to create obedient, disciplined and conformist workers who would be good at doing what they were told - to work in factories and fight in trenches. During its time this approach has served us well. It has helped us to create the relatively affluent and comfortable lifestyle that many of us enjoy today and yet it has also left many of us with the uncomfortable legacy of not truly knowing how or when to be true to ourselves, to be authentic - Neil Crofts
Our education system is a second-rate, factory-style organization, pumping out obsolete information in obsolete ways. [Schools] are simply not connected to the future of the kids they're responsible for - Alvin Toffler, Business 2.0
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers - Anon
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. ... The real preparation for education is the study of one's self -- Maria Montessori
In what university on Earth is one taught to dream, to be an idealist, a miracle-maker, a visionary, a prophet of a peaceful, perfect world? - Robert Muller