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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on read more
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
The world is run by C students.
The world is run by C students.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
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.
