Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
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There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.