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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
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.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
