It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.