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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
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.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological read more
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man read more
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.