We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The world is run by C students.

The world is run by C students.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

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.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.