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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence read more
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
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.