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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from read more
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.