Quotes about education
education brooks
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook. Henry David Thoreau
education knowledge half
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
education running dream
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
education teacher teaching
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. H. L. Mencken
educational simple ideas
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
educational learning school-education
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
education educational important
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
education book buffon
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
education children shoes
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
educational book practice
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.
education children teaching
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
educational stupid men
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
education done development
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
education real learning
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound
educational athlete trying
Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational. Evelyn Ashford
education latin knowledge
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.) Francis Bacon
education wise religious
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish? Frances Wright
educational understanding
Education is understanding relationships. George Washington Carver
education learning race
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
educational self discovery
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
educational leaving african-american
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
education teacher freedom
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
education government giving
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. George Washington
education country regret
It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
education mind employment
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.
education country art
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
education mean people
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
education appreciate political
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
education wisdom religious
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
education ideas difficulty
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana
education teacher children
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
education judgment aim
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
education careers moral
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.