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.

An educated people can be easily governed.

An educated people can be easily governed.

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. read more

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.