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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose read more
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art read more
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
