Erich Fromm Education Quotes & Sayings

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities. — Erich Fromm

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? — Erich Fromm

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. — Erich Fromm

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable. — Erich Fromm

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. — Erich Fromm

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education. — Erich Fromm

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything. — Erich Fromm