wut did einstein mean by this quote?

Question

"Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

Answer 1

He believed that the importance of schools was not facts, but the ability to think. Thus you can forget all of the facts (state capitals, formulae, etc.) as long as you remember how to think critically.

Answer 2

What Einstein meant is:

We learn so many things while at school. After we leave school, what do we remember of what we learnt there? Nothing except the broad outlines usually not connected to the curriculum or syllabus.Other outward details in bits & pieces. When a sheep escapes a barbed fence, some fleece stick to the barbed wires while the whole sheep has escaped. This is what Einstein meant by his quote.

Gimme my tenner.

Answer 3

Education molds a brain and a person and that person is changed after being educated even though he/she can't remember all the facts and information from all the classes and subjects. I've experienced that.

Answer 4

The most important things you learn from school are not what are on the tests. Instead, you learn who you are and how to be social etc.

Answer 5

This is classic some one asking about Einstein and education, and can't spell (WHAT) right.

Answer 6

He meant that the important thing is "learning how to learn" and how to live and cope in the world, not what you learn about facts and academics.

Answer 7

it means that you may not remember exactly what you learned in school but you will be left with a lasting impression and experience.

Answer 8

Possibly a thinly veiled threat to nuke the school and the teacher that gave him an F in math?????

or
"Thinking" lasts....."facts" fade

Answer 9

if you are outside in the real life, school education is not as important as what you do outside with everybody

Answer 10

It means to "Challenge Everything!"

Not in a hateful way but in way seeking new things.