I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism socialism communism or any other minority viewpoint–no matter how distasteful to the majority provided.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
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.
An education isnt how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
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 the thoughts of other men.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism socialism communism or any other minority viewpoint–no matter how distasteful to the majority provided.
If you think education is expensive try ignorance.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know about something you do not want to know.
There is nothing which God cannot do.
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Only the educated are free.
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which it just can really harm no one.
The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a gook living.
If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Education then beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of man the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
An education isnt how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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.
He who opens a school door closes a prison.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
If you think education is expensive try ignorance!
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
What we must look for here is first religious and moral principles; secondly gentlemanly conduct; thirdly intellectual ability.
What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.
Self-education is I firmly believe the only kind of education there is.
The test and use of a mans education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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 the thoughts of other men.
Every educated person is a future enemy.
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts We make our world.
Experience is the best of school masters only the school fees are heavy.