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.

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.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

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.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.