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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to read more
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're read more
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. read more
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am read more
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
