Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is read more
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
