An educational system isn't worth a great deal if
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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a
living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
No man who worships education has got the best out
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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.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Education would be much more effective if its pur
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
It'll be a great day when education gets all the
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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.
Education... has produced a vast population able
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
The school is the last expenditure upon which Ame
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Vic
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
It is a thousand times better to have common sens
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
The object of education is to prepare the young t
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder
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Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
Why should society feel responsible only for the
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to bu
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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