Maxioms by Tryon Edwards
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we read more
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere read more
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, read more
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
