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Nature has always had more force than education.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.