If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

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 possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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.