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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a read more
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's read more
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
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.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early read more
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.