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.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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.