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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to read more
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.
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.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
